Bryant's Heirs v. Hill

Judge Marshall

delivered the Opinion of the Court.

So far as the complainant Hill seeks the aid of the Court of Chancery to compel a conveyance, or any further assurance from Bryants’ Heirs, in pursuance of the contract of their ancestor with Buford, we have no doubt that said heirs may successfully resist such an effort on the ground that the contract thus sought, to be enforced, was infected with champarty. And as this matter is set up by them as an obstacle to the relief sought by Hill, and as the proof conduces to sufficiently establish the champerty as alleged by them, any decree directing…