Coulson v. Walton
Supreme Court of the United States
APPEAL from the circuit court of the United States for the district of West Tennessee, For the. appellant it was contended, that, stripped of circumstances, the case is, that Payne held a title bond on Coulson, for six hundred and .forty acres of land, dated in 1787. In 1791, Isaac Coulson the obligee died, leaving John Coul-son, the appellant, his heir. This bill was filed for a specific decree, in 1822, more than thirty years after the ancestor’s death.
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APPEAL from the circuit court of the United States for the district of West Tennessee, For the. appellant it was contended, that, stripped of circumstances, the case is, that Payne held a title bond on Coulson, for six hundred and .forty acres of land, dated in 1787. In 1791, Isaac Coulson the obligee died, leaving John Coul-son, the appellant, his heir. This bill was filed for a specific decree, in 1822, more than thirty years after the ancestor’s death. To the bill, John Coulson, the heir, pleaded in bar the act of limitations of 1715, ch, 48, see, 9, declaring, “ that creditors of any…
1Opinion of the CourtJustice M’Lean
delivered the opinion of the Court..
This case is brought before this court by an appeal from the decree of the circuit court for the western district of Tennessee.
In their bill the complainants state, that on the 22d of Feb.ruary 1785, a certain entry in the land office of North Carolina was made by Isaac Coulson, assignee of David Welles, for six hundred and forty acres of land ; and that afterwards, on the 2d of January 1787, he executed a bond to one Josiah Payne, for the conveyance of said tract of land, agreeably to the terms therein expressed, to wit.: “Know all men by these presents,…
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