Jones v. Tatum
Supreme Court of Virginia
This is an appeal by a purchaser at a judicial sale from a decree requiring- him to pay the balance of the purchase money.
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This is an appeal by a purchaser at a judicial sale from a decree requiring- him to pay the balance of the purchase money. The facts of the case, so far as it is material to state them, are as follows: On the 26th day of April 1866, four of the six Tatums being adults, filed their bill against the remaining two who were infants, in the Circuit court of the county of Henrico, in which they stated, that on the 31st day of May 1843, Theophilus Tatum, of the said county, executed a deed which was duly recorded, conveying to Henry Branch and James M. Boyd, among other things, a tract of land in…
1Opinion of the Court
MONCURE, P-,
after stating the case, proceeded:
The errors assigned in the petition for an appeal to the District court, which were the errors relied on by the counsel for the appellant, in the argument of the case before this court, are:—1st, that the trustees in the deed of the 31st day of May 1843, should be made parties to the suit; 2ndly, that an abatement of the purchase money should be made for the alleged deficiency of one acre in the quantity of the land; 3rdly, that the shares of the infant defendants should be properly invested and secured; and 4thly, that the appellant was…
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