Moss v. Scott

J udge Underwood

delivered the Opinion of the Court.

Two patents — one for two thousand acres, the other for sixty five, issued to John May and Joseph Jones. Andrew Crocket filed a bill in chancery, asserting a claim to half these lands, and, by consent of parties, a decree was rendered directing the defendants to convey half the land to John Fishback, and appointing commissioners to make the partition and conveyance. This decree *272was executed by conveying to Fishback, the land designated on the cónnected plat, by the lines R O, O E, K F and the Kentucky river, around to R ; or by the lines R 0,…