Crosby v. Buchanan
Supreme Court of the United States
William King, of Abingdon, a village of Washington County, in the southwest corner of Virginia — a man possessed of valuable brine springs, at Saltvilie, close by it, and of other large estate — died in 1808 childless, leaving a wife and eight brothers and sisters; among the brothers one named Samuel, and among the sisters one named Hannah, married to John Allen.
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William King, of Abingdon, a village of Washington County, in the southwest corner of Virginia — a man possessed of valuable brine springs, at Saltvilie, close by it, and of other large estate — died in 1808 childless, leaving a wife and eight brothers and sisters; among the brothers one named Samuel, and among the sisters one named Hannah, married to John Allen. He left also a nephew, William King, Jr. By his will he devised the bulk of his estate, valued at about $500,000, to his nephew (the said William King, Jr.), on a condition which, as things turned out, proved impossible. The fact of…
1Opinion of the Court
The CHIEF JUSTICE
delivered the opinion of the court.
The first question we are to determine is as to the extent of our power over the several orders and decrees of the court below. The appellees claim that it is confined to an examination of the question of the return of the purchase-money paid upon the contract of April 6th, 1812, while the appellants insist that the appeal reaches back and includes the decree of September 24th, 1853, so far as it relates to that part of the case in which they are interested. All agree that our inquiries are limited to the Allen title. The King title was…
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