Woodbridge v. Outland

Plaintiffs, Wallace James Outland and Billie Mae Outland, instituted suits in the Circuit Court of James City County and in the Circuit Court of York County against the defendants, Benjamin H. Woodbridge, Jr., and Martin V. B. Bostetter, Jr., administrators of the estate of Geneva Mae Pettitt, deceased, and the heirs at law of the decedent, seeking specific performance of an oral contract allegedly made by Mrs. Pettitt to devise to them approximately eight acres of land, with the improvements thereon, lying partly in James City County and partly in York County.

The suits were consolidated for…