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Isaacs v. Willis

Kentucky Supreme Court

Decided November 15, 1788

Kentucky Supreme Court · decided 1788-11-15

On a Oaveat for 372J Acres of Land. The plaintiff on the 29th day of November, in the year 1786, entered the following caveat, to-wit: “Let no grant issue to William Willis, assignee of Lewis Craig, assignee of Christopher Hudson, for 372J acres of land, surveyed by virtue of part of a military warrant, No. 248, lying and being in the county of Lincoln, because John Isaacs claims the same by virtue of an entry made on a pre-emption treasury warrant.” On the 8th day of…

Decided 1788-11-15

¶1The court at the last June term, pronounced the following interlocutory judgment, to-wit:

¶2The plaintiff ought to have surveyed his settlement in a square form, so as to adjoin Wilson’s land below, and also so as to be divided into two equal parts, by a line to be run parallel to Wilson’s run, and half way between the said run and the plaintiff’s cabin; and his pre-emption according to his original location ought to have been surveyed around his settlement on the north, east and south sides, the lines at equal distance from those sides of the settlement. But at this term it appearing by the surveyor’s report, that the plaintiff’s pre-emption as directed to be laid down did not interfere with the defendant’s survey, the court dismissed the plaintiff’s caveat with costs, etc.

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