Nelson v. Matthews
Supreme Court of Virginia
ON an appeal, taken by the complainant from a decree of the Superior Court of Chancery for the Staunton District. Nelson, about the beginning of the year 1785, being at that time and for several years before a resident of Richmond., entered into an agreement with Matthews for the purchase of a tract of land, comprehending the plantation whereon the said Matthews then resided.\ with two surveys adjoining, for the price of two thousand pounds.
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ON an appeal, taken by the complainant from a decree of the Superior Court of Chancery for the Staunton District. Nelson, about the beginning of the year 1785, being at that time and for several years before a resident of Richmond., entered into an agreement with Matthews for the purchase of a tract of land, comprehending the plantation whereon the said Matthews then resided.\ with two surveys adjoining, for the price of two thousand pounds. On the 11th of February, 1805, Matthews executed a bond to Nelson for the conveyance of a title in fee-simple to 'the said plantation and surveys,…
1Opinion of the Court
Wednesday, March 30. The Judges delivered their opinions.
Judge Tucker.
Nelson, who was at that time a resident of Richmond, purchased of Matthews a tract of land in Augusta County, said by him to contain 572 acres, which he held by deed ; with a valuable mill and other improvements thereon, together with two surveys adjoining the former tract, the quantity not known at the time of the bargain, but supposed to contain about 200 acres. A deficiency in all three of these tracts being suggested by Nelson, who brought a bill in Chancery to be relieved from a judgment obtained on one of the bonds…
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