Cathcart v. Robinson
Supreme Court of the United States
Appeal from the Circuit Court of the district of Columbia, for the county of Washington. In the circuit court for the county of Alexandria, the appellant, William Robinson, filed a bill for the specific execution of a contract entered into between him and James Leander Catheart, on the 10th of September 1822. The bill was filed in March 1829, and an injunction issued as prayed.
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Appeal from the Circuit Court of the district of Columbia, for the county of Washington. In the circuit court for the county of Alexandria, the appellant, William Robinson, filed a bill for the specific execution of a contract entered into between him and James Leander Catheart, on the 10th of September 1822. The bill was filed in March 1829, and an injunction issued as prayed. After-wards, in'July 1829, the proceedings in the ease were removed to Washington county, by a bill filed there, in which was incorporated the former bill and other matters, and introducing, as parties, the trustee of…
1Opinion of the Court
Marshall, Ch. J.,
delivered the opinion of the court. — This is a suit in chancery, brought by the appellee, in the court of the United States for the district of Columbia, to enforce the specific performance of a contract entered into between him and James L. Catheart, one of the appellants, for the sale and purchase of a tract of land, called Howard, lying in the county of Alexandria ; and also to subject a claim of the said Catheart on the Uuited States, under the provisions of the 11th article of the treaty with Spain, signed at Washington, on the 22d of February 1819, to the payment of…
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