Roberts v. Salisbury
Court of Appeals of Maryland
Appeal from the Court of Chancery. On the 1st February, 1814, the appellees, James Salisbury and others, the heirs and representatives of one Andrew Black, filed their bill against John Roberts, Isaac G. Roberts, and John Gooding, the appellants, alleging, that the said Andrew Black, and one Thomas Black, both deceased, were in their life-time seized, and possessed as tenants in common, of a certain tract of land in Cecil county.
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Appeal from the Court of Chancery. On the 1st February, 1814, the appellees, James Salisbury and others, the heirs and representatives of one Andrew Black, filed their bill against John Roberts, Isaac G. Roberts, and John Gooding, the appellants, alleging, that the said Andrew Black, and one Thomas Black, both deceased, were in their life-time seized, and possessed as tenants in common, of a certain tract of land in Cecil county. That being so seized, the said Andrew, on the 8th October,. 1808, sold and conveyed his interest in said tract, to John Roberts, as will appear by a copy of the…
1Opinion of the Court
Buchanan, Ch. J.,
delivered the opinion of the court.
It appears that Andrew Black, having sold'and conveyed to John Roberts his interest in a tract of land, took from him on the same day a mortgage of the same land to secure the payment of the purchase money, which deed of mortgage has not been recorded; that afterwards, John Roberts, the mortgagor, conveyed the same land to Isaac G. Roberts, and that subsequently, John and Isaac G. Roberts united in a conveyance of it to John Gooding. The object of the bill, in which it is stated that the purchase money of the land for which the mortgage was…
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