Thompson v. Peebles' Heirs

Nathaniel Hart, who owned several tracts of land, and also held a bond for a conveyance of the legal title to a tract of four hundred acres in the county of Clarke, died in the year 1782, having first published a last will *388in which, among other things, he directed his executors “ to give to each of (his) nine children ” — of whom Keziah Thompson, then the wife of Lawrence Thompson, was one — “a good tract of land not to exceed one thousand acres. ”

Shortly after the testator’s death, Lawrence Thompson, having obtained possession of the title bond for four hundred acres of land, sold the entire…