Cross v. Carson

This was a bill in equity having for its object to charge a tract of land with the payment of a debt. The bill alleges that one Lawrence Stull, about the 3d of October, 1827, conveyed to his son James Stull and his heirs a certain tract of land “in consideration and on the condition” of the said James and his heirs maintaining one Gassaway Stull, an idiot, the brother of James, during His life; that James Stull took charge of the idiot, and supported, him until June, 1832, when James died; that after the death of James, his widow and family abandoned their residence, leaving the idiot there…