Orear v. Tanner

OPINION of the Court, by

Judge Bibb..-Orear exhibited a bill in chancery, in which he states, that by articles between himself and Tanner, he purchased 400 acres of land, on Four Mile creek, being a settlement right granted to John Rooker, for which he agreed to discharge a bond given by John and David Tanner, to John Swan, for 400 acres of first rate land on Elkhorri or Licking creeks ; that he has been always prepared to take up the said bond to Swan, if he could have received a title to Rooker's settlement ; but that the defendant John Tanner, had before his contract with the complainant,…