Stoll v. Smith
Court of Appeals of Maryland
Appeal from the Circuit Court for Anne Arundel County. In Equity. (Bhasiikabs, J.) The facts are stated in the opinion of the Court.
1Opinion of the CourtStockbridge, J.
By the bill of complaint in this case the Court was asked to specifically enforce a contract of sale for two acres of land in Anne Arundel County. The defendant answered and set up- as the ground for defense that the appellees- could not, convey a good and merchantable title.
The land in question was pail, of a larger tract of twenty acres. This had been sold in December, 1830, by William Legg as trustee under a decree of a Court of Chancery to the predecessor in title of the vendors in the contract of sale, the appellees here, and he and his heirs have been in actual, continuous and exclusive…
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