Source: United States District Court for the District of Columbia
Date: 1807-11-01
Jurisdiction: United States
Citation: 1 Cranch 450 · 1 D.C. 450
Opinion
The Court (Fitzhugh, J., contra,) refused to instruct the jury that the agreement and deed did not make a good defence at law; being of opinion that the agreement bound the plaintiff to give a release upon the execution of' the deed, and a court of equity would have compelled him to execute it; and that in assumpsit it ought to be admitted in evidence on the general issue, it being a fraud upon the defendant as well as upon the other creditors that the plaintiff should refuse to execute the deed after the others had executed it. See Heathcote v. Crookshanks, 2 T. R. 24; Jackson v. Duchaire, 3 T. R. 551; and Jackson v. Lomas, 4 T. R. 166.