Worthington v. Bullitt
Court of Appeals of Maryland
•Cross-Appeals from the Court of Chancery. The bill in this case was filed on the equity side of Baltimore county court, on the 10th of September 1830, by Bullitt and others, creditors of Walter Worthington, to vacate .three deeds executed by said Walter to his son Samuel Wor.thington.
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•Cross-Appeals from the Court of Chancery. The bill in this case was filed on the equity side of Baltimore county court, on the 10th of September 1830, by Bullitt and others, creditors of Walter Worthington, to vacate .three deeds executed by said Walter to his son Samuel Wor.thington. By the first of these deeds dated the 28th of March 1825, -the said Walter conveyed to his son Samuel, a tract of land .-called “Gerw,” containing about 280 acres, for the moneyed consideration expressed upon its face of $>12,000. The second dated the 18th of June of the same year, was executed to cure a…
1Opinion of the Court
Mason, J.,
delivered the follbwing opinion, upon the appeal of Worthington..
This- proceeding had its- origin in transactions that took place nearly forty years ago-, and the bill itself was filed' as far back as a quarter of a century. Thus it will be seen that we are required to deal mainly with the acts and doings of those who are- now no more. Most of those who were participators in these- proceedings in their origin — the court, parties, counsel, witnesses and officers — -have passed from the-active scenes of the fallible courts of this earth, to the solemn,, silent and unerring tribunals…
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