M'Intire v. Johnson

*48OPINION of the Court, by

Judge 0 wsiet.

This is an appeal from the decree of the Bourboh circuit court-enforcing the specific execution of ah agreement in writing under the hands of M’Intire and John Martin, -(un* der whom the appellees derive their claim) compromise *49irtg tlieli interfering claims; the one held by Martin, by patent dated 1798, for 2000 acres ; the other belonging to MTntire, held by a patent of the year 1785. By Which agreement it was stipulated the parties would divide the interfering land equally, and investigate such interfering claims as were adverse to both; and for the…