Shepherd v. McIntire

James McIntire and John McIntire, two of the sons of Nicholas McIntire, having, prior to 1805, taken possession of a thousand acres of land in Bourbon county, granted to their father in 1784, each of them claiming to be entitled to the equitable right to a moiety thereof, by bonds from their father, dated in 1784—he died in 1805, after publishing a will, afterwards admitted to record, in which, after making various specific devises, not affecting the Bourbon tract of land, he devised the residue of his estate to his sons Jacob and Isaac McIntire, who afterwards claimed that tract under that…