Massie v. Watts
Supreme Court of the United States
THIS was an appeal from the decree of the circuit court of the United States, for the district of Kentucky, in a suit in equity brought by Watts, a citizen °* Virginia, against Massie, a citizen of Kentucky, to compel the latter to convey to the former 1,000 acres. 0f ian(j }n the state of Ohio, the defendant having obtained the legal title with notice of the plaintiff’s equitable title, The bill stated that the defendant Massie (the apPliant) had contracted with a certain…
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THIS was an appeal from the decree of the circuit court of the United States, for the district of Kentucky, in a suit in equity brought by Watts, a citizen °* Virginia, against Massie, a citizen of Kentucky, to compel the latter to convey to the former 1,000 acres. 0f ian(j }n the state of Ohio, the defendant having obtained the legal title with notice of the plaintiff’s equitable title, The bill stated that the defendant Massie (the apPliant) had contracted with a certain Ferdinand Oneal, to locate and survey for him a military warrant for 4,000 acres in his name, (which the plaintiff…
1Opinion of the Court
Marshall, Ch. J.
delivered the opinion of the court as follows:
This suit having been originally' instituted, in the .court of Kentucky'; for the1 purpose ,of obtaining a conveyance for lands lying in the state of Ohio, an objection is made by the plaintiff in error, who was tlie defendant below, to the jurisdiction of the court by which the decree was renaefed.
into vievr the character of the suit in chancery brought' to establish á prior title originating under the land law of Virginia against a person claiming under a senior patent, considering it as a substitute for a caveat introduced .by…
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