Lewis v. Weldon
Supreme Court of Virginia
Lewis brought an action of covenant in the Superior Court of Frederick county, (afterwards removed to the Superior Court of Berkeley county,) against Weldon, Eben Taylor, Griffin Taylor' and Jlbner Osburne, defendants.
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Lewis brought an action of covenant in the Superior Court of Frederick county, (afterwards removed to the Superior Court of Berkeley county,) against Weldon, Eben Taylor, Griffin Taylor' and Jlbner Osburne, defendants. The declaration sets forth the following agreement, dated the 13th day of January, 1813, and sealed with the seals of the defendants; that the said Lewis, the plaintiff, had agreed to sell to the said Weldon, 8,'C. (together with a certain Bushrod Taylor,) all his, (the said Lewis’s) crop of wheat in the county of Frederick, at the price of $ 1 50 cts. per bushel, or every 60…
1Opinion of the Court
Judge Coalter,
delivered the opinion of the Court.
The declaration sets out an agreement under seal, between the plaintiff on the one part, and James Weldon, Bushrod Taylor, Eben Taylor, Griffin Taylor and Jibner Osburne, of the other, whereby it was witnessed, that the plaintiff agreed to sell to the said James, fcc. all his crop of wheat in the county of Frederick, at the price of % 1 50 cts. per bushel, or every HO lbs. of merchantable wheat, at the barn of the plaintiff; the whole to be delivered between the date of the said agreement, (13th of January, 1813,) and the 1st of March…
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