¶1The evidence does not, in my opinion, establish any contract for the conveyance of the lot to the plaintiffs, which can be decreed to be specifically executed; but it shows expensive and permanent improvements and repairs, made by Josiah Thompson, under the expectation, encouraged by George King, that the property should be conveyed by him to the plaintiffs, or to one of them; an expectation which seems to create an equity in favor of .T. Thompson; but whether it creates a special lien on the property, so as to give him a right tp priority of payment, I am not yet satisfied.
23 F. Cas. 1055
Thompson v. King
U.S. District Court
Decided April 5, 1832
U.S. District Court · decided 1832-04-05
The bill, in this care, states the intermarriage of the plaintiffs in 1812, or 1813, the wife being tbe daughter of George King, who was then universally supposed to be wealthy, and was seized of a house and lot in Cecil alley, in Georgetown, which was very much out of repair, and which the ■ plaintiff Josiah, at the request of the said George King, who said he always intended that property for his daughter, (the plaintiff,) repaired, at the expense of $4,000, and occupied…
Decided 1832-04-05