Rankin v. Maxwell's Heirs

Judge Mills

delivered the opinion of the court.

Adam Rankin filed his bill in chancery in the court below, alledging, that about the year 1784, he purchased of John Maxwell a tract of two hundred acres of land, and had received possession from him, and a bond for the conveyance thereof That afterwards, in a suit brought by Maxwell against him, he furnished his counsel, Joseph H. Davies, with the bond, and had never seen it since:—That after the death of his counsel, his papers had fallen into the hands of others, and after the most strict scrutiny, he could not find it. That the bond was for…