Logan v. Steele's heirs

Judge Mills

delivered the Opinion of the Court.

In February, 1780, a certificate from the court of commissioners for adjusting the title to unpatented lands, issued to William McNitt, as heir at law to Joseph McNitt, for 1000 acres of land, in the present county of Fayette. A pre-emption warrant was afterwards issued thereon, and an entry was made of the warrant in the name of Jacob Myers, as assignee of the warrant in 1788, and a patent was issued in 1788.

Myers conveyed away, the title, and one half the tract”, or 500 acres thereof, came by sundry mesna Conveyances to David Logan, who settled…