Kramer v. Blair
Supreme Court of Virginia
Appeal from decree of hustings court of city of Roanoke, rendered May 11th, 1891, in the suit wherein William J. and L. Blair, Jr., were complainants, and R. C. Kramer was defendant. The court below decreed specific performance of the sale of certain lots to the complainants by the defendant, through his alleged agents, and the defendant appealed.
1Opinion of the Court
Lacy, L,
delivered the opinion of the court.
The hill was filed by the appellees to have specific performance of an alleged contract - in writing for the sale of land against the appellant. The alleged contract set-up in the bill was claimed to have been made with certain agents or brokers, doing business in the name and style of Hanekel, Kemp & Co. The said agents or brokers admit the contract, and seek to sustain it as against their alleged principal (the appellant), and insist upon their authority to bind their principal. The alleged principal denies the authority to bind him as his agents,…
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