Court of Appeals of Maryland December 15, 1853 (Armstrong v. Risteau's Lessee)

Tuck, J.,

delivered the opinion of ¡his court.

The appellee sued the appellant for the recovery of part of a tract of land called “Darnallsylvania.” At one lime this whole tract belonged to Hercules Courtenay, who was the father of the appellee’s wife, and who, in the year 1807, sold three hundred and thirty-one acres thereof to Daniel Chambers, under whom the appellant claims, by a devise to his