Dixon v. Anderson
Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit
Appeal from the District Court of the United States for the Eastern District of Virginia, at Norfolk; Edmund Waddill, Jr., Judge. Bill for specific performance by' C. S. Dixon against T. J. Anderson. Decree for defendant dismissing the bill without prejudice, and plaintiff appeals.
1Opinion of the Court
KNAPP, Circuit Judge.
On defendant’s motion the court below dismissed plaintiff’s bill without prejudice, and he appeals. The allegations of his bill may be thus summarized:
Under date of May 24, 1917, both, parties signed a contract, drawn by themselves, by which Anderson agreed to sell to Dixon two apartment houses in the city of Norfolk, Ya., known as the West End and the Panacea, for the sum of $50,000, and Dixon agreed to sell to Anderson, a farm in Beaufort, N. C., with certain live stock and farming implements, lor the sum of $40,000. Anderson did not in express terms agree to buy the…
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