Calvert's Heirs v. Nichols' Heirs

'Chief Justice Marshall

delivered the opinion of the Court— Judge Simpson did not sit in this case.

This bill was filed in February, 1820, by the heirs of John Nichols, who died about the year 1802 or 1803, against the heirs of Meredith Helm, to coerce the con*265veyance of 100 acres of land, alledged to have been sold by him to their ancestor. The sale is alledged to have been evidenced by a bond executed by Helm to Nichols, and which, as the bill states, came, upon the death of the latter, into the hands of his widow, and after-wards, of her second husband, Barns, by whom it is concealed or…