Tennessee Superior Court for Law and Equity September 6, 1809 (Cock, Assignee v. Taylor)

lead-opinion

This was an action brought on a bond, given by the defendant to Stephen Bean in the year 1800, containing a covenant to convey part of a 500 acre tract, with a reference to one of the lines of a tract which had previously been sold out of the same tract. The quantity, or particular boundaries, were not expressed.