Case ID: dc_5/html/0470-01.html
Source: Caselaw Access Project
Author: {"author": "(Morsell, J.,", "license": "Public Domain", "url": "https://static.case.law/"}
Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

Peter Saunders’s Heirs v. Thomson F. Mason.
    If there is no person in existence competent to receive payment of the debt, to secare •which property has been conveyed in trust, the Court will, after a lapse of sixteen years, decree a conveyance by the trustee to the heirs of the debtor.
    Bill in equity by the heirs of Peter Saunders, stating that their ancestor conveyed a real estate to the defendant, Thomson F. Mason, in trust to secure a debt due by him to the Franklin Bank, whose charter expired sixteen years ago, and there has not since been any person competent to receive payment of the debt; and praying that the property may be conveyed to.plaintiffs.
    The facts were admitted by the defendant, the trustee.
    
      Mr. Semmes, for the plaintiffs,
    cited Cruise, tit. 12, Trust, c. 1.
   The Court

(Morsell, J.,

absent,) decreed a conveyance, according to the prayer of the bill.