Gatewood's heirs v. Rucker's heirs

Opinion of the Court, by

Judge Minns.

ÜS is a bill in chancery, to compel the specific rmance of a contract for land, and sets out a bon.d ted by Andrew Gatewood to Robert Dale, in and assigned the same year by Dale to James ir a.nd Elijah Creed, and by them, in 1794, as-l to the complainant. The bill alleges that the as ia Theodorick Noel, and that he had sold it to mod, or authorised Gatewood to sell it, and had ed the price. Noel, Dale, James Rucker, Creed e heirs of Gatewood, are named defendants in the

amended bill suggests that the complainant is in-1 that Gatewood had ¡^authority to sell…