Beard v. Campbell

The Chief Justice

delivered the opinion of the court.*

Col. Arthur Campbell, by his will, after making sundry devises, directed that his executor should sell a tract of land of 1000 acres, which he held near Louisville, so soon as it would bring twenty dollars an acre, on a credit of one, two and three years; and another tract of six hundred and twenty five acres in Tennessee, when it would bring five dollars an acre; and all his lands in Virginia not before bequeathed—and directed the money arising from thence to be applied to the payment of his debts and the legacies he had bequeathed, and…