Davis v. Logan

The Chief Justice

delivered the Opinion of the Court.

In 1811, a parol partition was made among the heirs of General Benjamin Logan, deceased, of a tract of land upon which he had lived and died; and lot No. 8 was thus allotted to his son, John Logan, then the husband of the defendant in error.

In 1813, John Logan sold that lot of land to Francis Davis.

In 1815, the widow and heirs of the decedent, excepting William Logan, conveyed to the said William, the legal title to the entire tract which had been divided among them; and the conveyance shows that it was made in trust, for consolidating the…