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1 Ky. 93

Eagan v. Hinch

Kentucky Supreme Court

Decided October 15, 1793

Kentucky Supreme Court · decided 1793-10-15

In Chancery. The complainant stated in his bill, that on the 26th day of April, in the year 1780, he obtained from the court of commissioners the following certificate, to-wit: “ William Eagan this day claimed a pre-emption of 1,000 acres of land at the state price, in the district of Kentucky, on account of marking and improving the same in the year 1775, lying on a branch that runs into Greer’s creek, about three-quarters or one mile west of Joseph Conway’s, to include his…

Decided 1793-10-15

By the Court.

¶1The only material questions arising in this suit, which have been submitted to the court, seem to be:

¶2First. Was a dividing line between the two pre-emptions agreed on by the original claimants, Eagan and Conway to intersect at the half way point, a line which would pass through the center of their improvements, and to run at right angles thereto ?

¶3Second. Was this dividing line made known to, and acquiesced in by Hinch and Jack, who purchased the said Conway’s pre-emption ? Both points having been proved in the affirmative, to the satisfaction of the court, they are of opinion that the defendants Hinch and Jack are bound thereby; and therefore that the complainant Eagan recover from the said defendants all the land contained within their survey contrary to the said agreement, and the same is decreed accordingly.

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