Richardson v. Jones
Court of Appeals of Maryland
Appeal from the Court of Chancery. In the year 1816, Abraham, Jarrett filed a bill in the Court of Chancery, settingforth that he sold certain tracts of land called Scott’s Hopewell, and Beall’s Camp, to Arthur Rider, in the year 1811; that Rider paid only part of the purchase money, and took possession of the land; that Rider died intestate, in the year 1814, leaving Arthur Rider, Jr. and Sarah Rider, since intermarried with William Byrnes, his heirs at law; that letters of…
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Appeal from the Court of Chancery. In the year 1816, Abraham, Jarrett filed a bill in the Court of Chancery, settingforth that he sold certain tracts of land called Scott’s Hopewell, and Beall’s Camp, to Arthur Rider, in the year 1811; that Rider paid only part of the purchase money, and took possession of the land; that Rider died intestate, in the year 1814, leaving Arthur Rider, Jr. and Sarah Rider, since intermarried with William Byrnes, his heirs at law; that letters of administration were granted to Arthur Rider, Jr.; that the elder Rider was indebted to the complainant on other…
1Opinion of the Court
Buchanan, Ch. J.,
delivered the opinion of the court.
We entirely concur with the Chancellor, in the view he has taken of the wily conduct of Benjamin Richardson, the appellant, whose whole course in relation to the subject of his petition, bears upon the face of it, the deep impress of trick and fraud; and in his refusal to set aside the sale, and exonerate Benjamin Richardson from his responsibility for the purchase money of the land, to which he had become subjected, by lending himself as a cover, to the violation of his duty, by an unfaithful trustee.
The policy of the law forbids, that a…
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