Leckie v. Lynchburg Trust & Savings Bank

This suit was instituted by appellant, Harry G. Leckie, against appellee, Lynchburg Trust and Savings Bank, Executor of Herbert E. DeWitt, to secure specific performance of an oral agreement for sale of real estate.

The contract sought to be enforced and under which appellant purchased from Herbert E. DeWitt two acres of land known as the “warehouse property” lying just outside the corporate limits of the city of Lynchburg had been entered into in the year 1933 or 1935. In reliance thereon, appellant had taken possession of the premises, erected and added costly improvements upon the land, and…