Woodson's Administrators v. Scott

Judge Nicholas

delivered the Opinion of the Court.

IN 1816, Woodson gave Scott his covenant for the conveyance of a tract of land, and put him in possession. The conveyance .was to have been made upon payment of the first instalment of the purchase money, which-was made in 1817 or 1818. • Scott having paid the-whole of the instalments, sued Woodson, in July 1824, for a failure to convey. Woodson afterwards tendered him a deed, in October, 1824, which Scott refused to accept. Woodson died, and the suit was revived against his administrators; who, together with his heirs, filed, in 1829, their…