Wren v. Moncure
Supreme Court of Virginia
Appeal from a decree of the Circuit Court of Rockbridge county pronounced September 19, 1895, in a suit in chancery, wherein the appellees were the complainants, and the appellants were the defendants.
1Opinion of the CourtRiely, J.
The object of this suit was to rescind and cancel an agreement for the purchase of certain interests in a parcel of land upon the ground that false and fraudulent representations were made by the vendors to induce the purchase.
The representations, upon which the complainants in their bill based the right to relief, were two:
1st. That at least twenty acres of the land (there being twenty-one and three-fourths acres in the parcel), were eligible, valuable, and exceedingly desirable for building purposes, and that all of the said twenty acres, after allowing sufficient room for streets, could be…
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