Major v. Price

J. Lee Price filed a bill in chancery against Ruth B. Major seeking specific performance of a written contract for the sale of four acres of land. The court after considering the evidence, part of which was introduced by depositions and the other was heard ore tenus, by decree granted Price the relief prayed for, which ruling is before us upon appeal.

Mrs. Major was the owner of fifty-one acres of land in the city of Alexandria, lying at the intersection of Shirley highway and Seminary road. The forty-seven acre tract on which she lived was situated in the southerly part of the intersection,…