Brawner v. Staup
Court of Appeals of Maryland
Appeal from the Circuit Court for Allegany County, sitting in Equity : George Staup, the son of Peter Staup, in the year 1829, purchased from James Beatty a tract of land iu Allegany County called “The Resurvey on Elk Lick,” and received a bond of conveyance therefor in his own name; and after-wards,- in the month of September 1836, received a deed in bis own name, from said Beatty, for the same land.
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Appeal from the Circuit Court for Allegany County, sitting in Equity : George Staup, the son of Peter Staup, in the year 1829, purchased from James Beatty a tract of land iu Allegany County called “The Resurvey on Elk Lick,” and received a bond of conveyance therefor in his own name; and after-wards,- in the month of September 1836, received a deed in bis own name, from said Beatty, for the same land. Peter Staup died in 1835, and on the 4th of April 1856, certain of his heirs and the assignees of others, filed the bill in this causo claiming that the land was bought and paid for by the said…
1Opinion of the CourtGoldsborough, J.
The appellants in their bill of complaint allege, that in November 1829, Peter Staup, the father, employed his son George Staup to purchase from, a certain James Beatty,, of the City of Baltimore, the lands in controversy. That the father furnished the purchase money to George, and it was understood and agreed between the father and son, that the title papers should be executed to the said Peter and in his name. But George Staup fraudulently contriving and intending to cheat and defraud his father, procured the bond of conveyance mentioned in the record, and the deed subsequently made, to be…
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