Anderson's v. Mason

Judge Marshall

delivered the Opinion of the Court.

In October, 1820, John T. Mason purchased the respective interests of Robert Stockton and Joseph Me* Murtry in the Iron works and appurtenances which, up to that time, had been held by Mason, Stockton and McMurtry, as partners under the name of the Beaver Company — except five hundred acres of land, called the Salt Lick tract, which had been contributed to the joint stock by McMurtry, and was, in this contract of dissolution, surrendered back to him. ' •

For McMurtry’s interest, besides this surrender, Mason agreed to give “six thousand dollars,…