Duncan v. Wickliffe

Citations

• 5 Scam. 451

Syllabus

<p>Appeal from Madison.</p> <p>1. Conveyance — loss of deed not divest title. Where a conveyance of a tract of land is executed and delivered, the subsequent destruction or surrender of the deed will not revest the title to the land in the grantor.</p> <p>2. Specific performance — contract of intestate. All of the heirs of an intestate should be made parties to a bill in chancery to enforce the specific performance of a contract made by the intestate, in his lifetime, to convey a tract of land, (a) </p>