Legal Opinion
Murray v. Rickard
Supreme Court of Virginia
Decided November 23, 1904PublishedCited by 14 opinions
Appeal from decrees of the Circuit Court of Rockingham county in a suit in chancery, wherein the appellee was the complainant, and the appellants and others were the defendants.
1Opinion of the CourtCardwell, J.
On the 21st day of December, 1892, Mary H. Murray and Henry M. Murray, her husband, by letter authorized W. H. Rickard as a special agent, to make sale of a tract of 44,000 acres of land, known as the Hollingsworth survey, belonging to Mrs. Murray, and situated partly in Virginia and partly in West Virginia, the sale to be made on the following terms:
“At $3.00 per acre, allowing you a commission of 5 per cent, on the purchase, said commission to be paid out of the payments as made.
“The payment for the lands to be as follows: Tor an option of twelve months a payment within fifteen days of this…
2Cases cited2 opinions
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