Lynch v. Johnson

Lynch exhibited his hill against Johnson, alleging that in the year If 98, he, with a certain John Blanton, purchased from Johnson, all the lands which Johnson had a right to, in the then county of Mason, of first and second rate, (excluding out of the first rate* 2000 acres, which Johnson reserved to himself, to be laid otf in surveys of four or five hundred acres;) that Lynch and Blanton were to investigate the titles, and to pay at the rate of one dollar per acre, with interest, for what lands should be saved, at the end of five years, which was allowed for the investigation; that a second…