Ewing's Heirs v. Handley's Executors

*346Opinion op the Court, by

Ju*dge Minns.

ON the 28th of November, 1789, Charles Ewing contracted to sell to James Handley, two hundred and fifty acres of land, then demarked, and executed his bond with a penalty, binding both himself and his heirs, conditioned to convey the said land, “•by a sure and suffi-c'en^- deed in fee-simple, as soon as a patent could with convenience be obtained for the same; and also, to keep *347kj^afd Bandlfey in peaceable possession oí the samq.” "adley aftemaEds."l$ok possession thereof and settled áls sonAh.ere.on jaSd gave' hi nr only- a verbal- grant, permitting him…