Brown v. Wyncoop

The plaintiff in error was the complainant below. He states in his bill that, in 1825, he bought a tract of land from Rossell Sturdevant, received a title-bond for it at the time, and afterwards, in 1827, obtained from him a deed; that Rossell Sturdevant had bought the land, bona fide, from Azor Sturdevant, in 1817, who, in the same year, had bought it from John Bates. He further states that, in 1819, Schoonover, the as*231signee of Bates, recovered a judgment against Azor Sturdevant for 733 dollars and 33 cents, due for the consideration of the land as the complainant believes; that the land was…