Burnette v. Young
Supreme Court of Virginia
Error to a judgment of the Circuit Court of Henrico county, in an action of ejectment. Judgment for the defendant. Plaintiff assigns error.
1Opinion of the CourtCardwell., J.
Plaintiff in error, Virginia O. Burnette, was, on the 5th day of June, 1905, the owner in fee simple of a certain tract of *185land in Henrico comity, Virginia, containing 121 acres, with improvements thereon; and on that date she, at the office of M. H. Omohundro, an attorney at law, in the city of Richmond, signed a certain paper, which she claims was not a deed, but a contract to convey the said farm in fee simple to appellees, D. V, Omohundro, the wife of said M. H. Omohundro, and M. R. Casselman, the wife of one Lawrence Casselman, with certain privileges reserved to herself to take back the…
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