McKee's Heirs v. Hann

Judge Marshall

delivered the Opinion of the Court.

These writs of error are prosecuted by the infant heirs of Polly McKee, to reverse the proceedings and decrees by which two tracts of land descended to them, were sold and conveyed — the one to Hann, and the other to McKee, through Letcher, who transferred the benefit of the purchase to him. The writs of error having been amended, on motion, so as to make the infant heirs sole plaintiffs in both writs, and in the first, to make the devisee of the purchaser of the first tract, and the commissioner who was appointed to collect, and who still…