Hart's devisees v. Hawkins's heirs

*502OPINION of the Court, by

Judge Logan

— This is a suit in chancery instituted by the devisees and te-g3j representatives of Nathaniel Hart, dec’d. against Johr\ Hawkins and others, for the recovery of a certain tract of land, upon the following case, to wit.

Qn the 3^ Qf April 1779, Hart and Hawkins entered . i_- r r '* . * int0 a copartnership for the purpose of opening a traae and carrying on business in the mercantile way on the waters of the Ohio ; each stipulating to bring into stork, within a short and given period, one thousand pounds, to be immediately advanced for negroes, horses, or…