Day v. Kingsland

Embry, V. C.

This is a bill by the vendor for the specific performance of a written agreement for the purchase of lands against the vendee, who refuses to accept the deed and carry out the agreement upon the ground that the complainant’s title to the lands is not marketable. • Complainant’s title to the lands is derived through proceedings for the partition of lands between the heirs of one Daniel Riggs. Daniel Riggs, who died seized of the premises in the year 1786, by his will, dated in October of that year, devised the premises in question to his son, Benjamin, and his heirs, with the…