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1 Ky. 40

Madison v. James

Kentucky Supreme Court

Decided June 15, 1790

Kentucky Supreme Court · decided 1790-06-15

In Chancery. Thomas Quirk, on the 2d day of December, in the year 1779, obtained from the commissioners for the district of Kentucky, the following certificate for a pre-emption 6f 1000 acres of land, to-wit: “ Thomas Quirk this day claimed a pre-emqition to a tract of land, lying on the waters of Dick’s river, adjoining the lands of George Smith, by building a cabinpn the year 1774.

Decided 1790-06-15

By the Court.

¶1The complainant must recover of the defendant the interference described on the plat by' the figures 2 15 16, containing 78J acres, which interference is occasioned by the defendant’s surveying to the west of the dividing line established between Bulger and Bowman. Decreed that the defendant should convey that quantity, and that the complainant should release his interest in the balance of the interference. Defendant to pay costs.

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