WATTS ET AL. v. WADDLE ET AL.


31 U.S. 389 (____)

6 Pet. 389

WILLIAM W. WATTS AND ARTHUR WATTS'S EXECUTORS, AND WILLIAM W. WATTS, ARTHUR WATTS, JOSEPH SCOTT AND ELIZABETH HIS WIFE, HEIRS AND LEGAL REPRESENTATIVES OF JOHN WATTS, DECEASED, APPELLANTS v. WILLIAM WADDLE AND ALEXANDER WADDLE'S ADMINISTRATORS, AND ALEXANDER WADDLE, AND WILLIAM, JOHN, LUCY, EDWARD AND ARGUS WADDLE, INFANTS, BY BENJAMIN G. LEONARD THEIR NEXT FRIEND, CHILDREN AND HEIRS OF JOHN WADDLE, DECEASED, AND WILLIAM LAMB.

Supreme Court of United States.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

For the appellants, Mr Creighton and Mr Clay.

Mr Leonard, for the appellees.


Mr Justice M'LEAN delivered the opinion of the Court.

This suit was brought into this court by an appeal from the decree of the circuit court for the district of Ohio. The bill was filed in that court by the complainant to compel the specific execution of a contract, entered into with the defendant Lamb, on the 1st day of November 1815; by which the complainant bound himself to convey...

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