Goddin v. Bland & Bro.
Supreme Court of Virginia
Appeal from two decrees of circuit court of King William county, rendered respectively on October 4th, 1887, and on July 1st, 1889, in a chancery suit, wherein James T. Bland and George C. Bland, partners trading under the name of J. T. Bland & Bro., were plaintiffs, and Sylvanus Goddin was defendant. The decree being adverse to the defendant, he appealed. Opinion states the case.
1Opinion of the CourtLacy, J.
The case is as follows: In 1884, Bland & Bro., residents of . King and Queen county, in Virginia, employed Sylvanus God-din, a resident of the county of New Kent, in the same State, to purchase for them poplar cord wood in the counties of New Kent, Charles City, James City, and York, situated in what is *707known, as the “ Peninsula,” in this State, lying between the James river and the York river, and its affluent, the Pamunkey river, at an agreed price,, to be delivered by the vendors thereof, to the said Bland & Bro., at the river and creek landings in that section on board of vessels and…
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