Kentucky Supreme Court, 1789

Hite v. Harrison

Hite v. Harrison
Kentucky Supreme Court · Decided September 15, 1789
1 Ky. 29

Hite v. Harrison

Opinion of the Court

By the Court.

The plaintiff, as assignee of David Williams, ought to have surveyed the settlement in a square form, the lines running to the cardinal points, and at equal distances from the improvement,, and the pre-emption also in a square form, on the west side of the settlement, beginning at the south-west corner and running to the cardinal point.

Judgment for the plaintiff, for the interference designated on the plat by the figures 12 3, which is twenty-six acres, and half costs.

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