Sullivan's heirs v. Bates

Opinion of the Court.

THIS was a suit in chancery, brought in the circuit court by the heirs of Sullivan, to compel the Bateses and the other defendants in that court, to surrender the *42legal title to part of three lots in the town of Louisville. The title was procured by the Bateses from the heirs of James Morrison, deceased, and part of the lots thereafter sold and conveyed by them to the defendants, the trustees of the Methodist Episcopal Church ; and the heirs of Sullivan, who were complainants in the court below, assert the superior equity, under a purchase made by their ancestor from…