Lee v. Beatty

Judge Marshall did not sit in this case.

Alexander K. Marshall, who claimed under a junior patent, having sold a tract of land to one Sampson, for which Henry Lee, claiming under the elder grant, had obtained a judgment in ejectment, made a contract with Lee for quieting Sampson’s title, the written memorial of which agreement, dated 1811, and signed by both parties, recited that Marshall was to pay to Lee eight dollars per acre, for all the land within a designated boundary, to which Lee should make a title, and also legal interest on the principal sum until paid, and that a survey should be…