Bank of the United States v. Cockran

The Chief Justice

delivered the Opinion of the Court.

One James Pryor having conveyed to William Cockran some lots in the city of Louisville, by two deeds, one in 1819, and the other in 1820, in trust for securing to the United States Bank the payment of two notes which Pryor had given to the said Bank—a decree for enforcing the trust, by a sale of the property so conveyed, was rendered by the Jefferson Circuit Court, in the year 1826, on a bill which had been filed for that purpose by the said Bank, against David Cockran, as nonresident heir of the trustee, and against others alleged to be the…