Case Name: Prime v. McRea's Executors and Heirs
Court: United States District Court for the District of Columbia
Jurisdiction: United States
Decision Date: 1804-11
Citations: 1 Cranch 201
Docket Number: 
Parties: Prime v. 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: 201–201

Head Matter:
Prime v. McRea’s Executors and Heirs.
One half of the real estate of a testator in Virginia is liable for his debts, although not charged by the will. Qucere.
Mr. E. J. Lee, for the complainant,
cited Robinson v. Tonge, 3 P. "Wins. 398, and Finch v. Earl of Winchelsea, in a note to that case, and Stileman v. Ashdoun, 2 Atb. 608. (Cur. ad. vult.)

Opinion:
Cranch, J.,
doubted, whether a decree can be made to sell the real estate of McRea in the hands of his heirs unless there be a mortgage or other lien; or unless the personal estate has been applied to relieve the real.
The Court afterwards decreed a sale of half of the lands and rents.