Copeland v. Curry's representatives

*176OPINION of the court, by

Ch. J. Edwards.

— The appellant contracted with a certain Boyles, to clear out and carry into grant his' settlement and pre-emption, claim, on the waters of Dick’s river, for which he was ttf receive as a compensation for his services, and advances in completing the title, &c. one equal moiety of sd much land as should be secured by virtue of the said claims ; afterwards, on the 5th day of November 1783, by a written contract entered into with Nicholas Curry, the deceased ancestor of the present appellees, he agreed that said Curry should participate equally with him in…