Case Name: Prime v. Robert McRea's Executors and Heirs
Court: United States District Court for the District of Columbia
Jurisdiction: United States
Decision Date: 1806-03
Citations: 1 Cranch 294
Docket Number: 
Parties: Prime v. Robert McRea’s Executors and Heirs.
Judges: 
Reporter: Reports of cases argued and determined in the Supreme Court of the District of Columbia (District of Columbia - reported by Mackey)
Volume: 1
Pages: 294–294

Head Matter:
Prime v. Robert McRea’s Executors and Heirs.
By the laws of Virginia, in 1801, a court of equity could decree a sale of one moiety of the fee-simple of the debtor’s lands in the hands of the heir at law.
The bill states that the plaintiff recovered judgment in Virginia, against McEea and Mease, for ’ dollars,'and received part from the estate of Mease. That McEea left certain real estate, which he prays may be sold to pay the balance of the debt.

Opinion:
Upon consideration of the cases of Robinson v. Tongo, 3 P. Wms. 398, and Stileman v. Ashdown, 2 Atk. 608, the Court decreed that half the rents and half the real estate 'should he sold.