Williams v. Carter

Judge Marshall

delivered the opinion of the Court

— Judge-Ewing being absent at the hearing, took no part in the decision.

Carter filed his bill against Williams and others, to rescind a contract for the purchase of land from them, on the ground that they had no title, as they had represented, and .that the land was in adverse possession, and the contract therefore champertous and void.

In the articles of sale, the defendants stated themselves to be the owners of the equitable and legal title to Bertrand Ewell’s claim or patent, the whole of which, with some specified exceptions, they sold to the…