Davis v. Jennings

The Chancellor :

The bill makes tliis case : On July 16, 1855, Nathan J. Adams and Lucy Ann Adams, his wife, join in a bond to Samuel Davis, in the penalty of $2,000, conditioned to make to him a deed in fee-simple to a lot of land described, as soon as they should perfect the title to the land to the satisfaction of Davis, and Davis paid the balance of $1,000 purchase-money, of which he had already paid $750. On June 6, 1856, Nathan J. Adams died intestate, leaving his widow, and, says the bill, “his only heir-at-law” him surviving. On July 23, 1858, the said Lucy Ann Adams, the widow, died…