Smith v. . Smith

The right of the plaintiff to a decree that the heirs at law of Thaddeus W. Whitley shall execute to the heir at law of her deceased husband, Bryan Smith, a conveyance for the tract of land mentioned in the pleadings, for the purchase of which there had been a contract in the lifetime of the parties, and that she may have dower therein, is undoubted. It is equally clear that she cannot have a decree for the specific execution of the contract made between her husband and herself, to have the said tract, or any other tract of land, or negroes of equivalent value, settled upon her in…