Bank of the United States v. Vanness
U.S. Circuit Court for the District of District of Columbia
At law. Ejectment [by the lessee of the Bank of the United States against John P. Van Ness and William Jones] for lots 6 and 7 in the square 226 in the city of Washington.
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At law. Ejectment [by the lessee of the Bank of the United States against John P. Van Ness and William Jones] for lots 6 and 7 in the square 226 in the city of Washington. Upon the trial the plaintiffs offered in evidence an exemplification of the record of the proceedings and decree of the chancellor of Maryland in a suit by Isaac Polock v. Marcia Burns, the infant heir at law of David Burns, deceased, for the specific execution of a contract entered into, in writing, in the lifetime of the said David Burns, for the sale of sundry house lots in the city of Washington to the said Isaac…
1Opinion of the Court
THE COURT
was also of opinion, (nem. con.) that if that deed did not convey the legal title of the lots to Polock, the decree itself, under the Maryland act of 1785, c. 72, § 14, stands as a conveyance, and passed the title.
One of the demises laid in the declaration was by the heirs of Benjamin Stoddert, under which the plaintiff offered in evidence two deeds from Isaac Polock to Charles Lown-des; one from Charles Lowndes to Walter Smith, in trust, and one from Walter Smith to Benjamin Stoddert. To the admission of which deeds the defendant objected, on the ground that the last-mentioned deed…
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