Harrison's devisees v. Fleming

•Judge Mills

delivered the Opinion of the Court.

This is a fragment of, or rather a supplement to, a controversy well known in this court, as will be seen by the reported cases, 2 Bibb, 171; 4 Bibb, 525; Harrison’s devisees vs. Baker, 5 Litt. Rep. 250.

By these reported cases, it will he discovered, that Fleming recovered from the devisees of Harrison, four hundred acres of land, by a decree of specific performance of a bond given by the testator of the Harrisons to George Stockdon, which had passed to Fleming, the appellee, by several assignments. Baker, under Stockdon, the original obligee,…