Weems v. Brewer
Court of Appeals of Maryland
Cross. Appeals from the Court of Chancery. On the 9th of September 1824, the appellant in the first, and appellee in fbe second of these appeals, exhibited his petition to the chancellor, in which he stated, that in a cause commenced by bill filed in the court of chancery, on the 1st of October 1819, in the names of William W. Conner, John Franklin, and Harriet his wife, Sabritt Tr.ott, and Nancy his wife, against Jlbrali&m Fulhart, and Matilda his wife, Marmaditke W. Con*…
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Cross. Appeals from the Court of Chancery. On the 9th of September 1824, the appellant in the first, and appellee in fbe second of these appeals, exhibited his petition to the chancellor, in which he stated, that in a cause commenced by bill filed in the court of chancery, on the 1st of October 1819, in the names of William W. Conner, John Franklin, and Harriet his wife, Sabritt Tr.ott, and Nancy his wife, against Jlbrali&m Fulhart, and Matilda his wife, Marmaditke W. Con* ner and Henry C. Drury, praying that a certain tract of land called Holloway, or Oliver’s Preservation, lying in Anne«…
1Opinion of the Court
Buchanan, Ch. J.
delivered the opinion of the Court. This is an application by a purchaser of land at a trustee’s-sale, to be *404relieved from his contract on the ground of disappointment in the main object of his purchase.
/There was no fraud,- concealment, or intentional misrepresentation on the part of the trustee, but the sale appears to have been made in perfect good faith. The pendency of the suit in chancery by Drury and others for the'same land, at the time of the sale, against Conner and others, was it appears, as well known to the petitioner, John C. Weems, as to Brewer, the trustee, and…
2Cited by1 opinion
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