Parker's heirs v. Bodley

OPINION of the Court, by

Judge Owsiey..'JThi* suit was brought by Bodley in the court below to recover from Parker’s heirs one moiety of the lands and other estate purchased by Parker in his lifetime from one of the legatees of Joseph Byers, deceased. The bill c^arScs that in the fall of the year 1796, Parker being ahout to go to the state of Pennsylvania, it was agreed ¡ between him and Bodley, that he should, if possible, make cei'^a'n contracts or speculations (of which Bodley gave information) with persons then residing in said state, for and on the joint account of both Bodley and Parker.…