Blair v. Sheridan
Supreme Court of Virginia
Appeal from decree of hustings court of Eoanoke city rendered February 13, 1889, in the chancery cause wherein W. J. and L. Blair, Jr., were complainants, and John Sheridan and A. E. Moore were defendants. The decree being adverse to complainants, they appealed.
1Opinion of the Court
Hinton, J.,
delivered tlie opinion of the court.
The court is of opinion that the circuit court properly refused to decree the specific execution of the contract of sale asserted in this case. Bor the complainants it is contended that they have a right to the property in controversy, as purchasers from a duly-authorized agent, and for the respondents it is insisted that the agent had no authority to sell. It seems that, in the conduct of the transactions out of which this litigation arose, the defendants, John Sheridan and A. P. Moore, were reprsented by Sheridan alone, and that the firm of…
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