Watts v. Waddle Ex Rel. Leonard
Supreme Court of the United States
APPEAL from the circuit court of the United States for the district of Ohio. In the circuit court of Ohio, John Watts, a citizen of the state of Kentucky, filed a bill.in chancery against John Waddle and William Lamb, the appellees, to obtain a perpetual injunction to stay proceedings by John Waddle on a judgment obtained in the circuit court against him, for damages for the non-performance of a contract made by him with John Lamb in November 1815, wfiich contract had been…
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APPEAL from the circuit court of the United States for the district of Ohio. In the circuit court of Ohio, John Watts, a citizen of the state of Kentucky, filed a bill.in chancery against John Waddle and William Lamb, the appellees, to obtain a perpetual injunction to stay proceedings by John Waddle on a judgment obtained in the circuit court against him, for damages for the non-performance of a contract made by him with John Lamb in November 1815, wfiich contract had been assigned by him to John Waddle; and also to compel Waddieor Lamb to a- specific execution of the contract. The contract…
1Opinion of the CourtJustice M’Lean
delivered the opinion of the Court..
This suit was brought into this court by an appeal from the decree of the circuit court for the district of Ohio. The bill -was filed in .that court by the complainant to compel the specific execution of a contract, entered into with the defendant Lamb, on the 1st day of November 1815; by which the complainant bound himself to convey certain out-lots and other land, adjacent to the town of Chillicothe, to the said Lamb, for the consideration of four thousand seven hundred and sixteen dollars and sixty-six and two-thirds cent's. The conveyance was to be made…
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