Hull v. Watts
Supreme Court of Virginia
Appeal from a decree of the Circuit Court of Tazewell comity, pronounced December 20, 1894, in a suit in chancery, wherein the appellee was the complainant and the appellant was the defendant. H. B. Hull and wife conveyed to Henry Harrison a tract of land in Tazewell county containing, as stated in the deed, 832 30-100 acres, at the price of $10,000. The only covenant in the deed was a covenant of general warranty.
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Appeal from a decree of the Circuit Court of Tazewell comity, pronounced December 20, 1894, in a suit in chancery, wherein the appellee was the complainant and the appellant was the defendant. H. B. Hull and wife conveyed to Henry Harrison a tract of land in Tazewell county containing, as stated in the deed, 832 30-100 acres, at the price of $10,000. The only covenant in the deed was a covenant of general warranty. Henry Harrison conveyed the same land as containing 832 30-100 acres, by deed, with covenant of general warranty, to J. Howe Sayers. Sayers had the land surveyed, and it was…
1Opinion of the CourtHarrison, J.
*12On the 7th of March, 1884, appellant conveyed to Henry Harrison a tract of land in Ábbs Valley, in Tazewell county,’ described as containing 832 30-100 acres, at the price of $10,000, and received the purchase money therefor. Harrison sold and conveyed this land as 832 30-100 acres to J. H. Sayers, and died in 1887, the pinchase money bonds due from Sayers passing into the hands of appellee as administrator of Harrison. Sayers, after his purchase, had the land surveyed, and ascertained that the tract only contained 773 76-100 acres, and to the extent of that deficit claimed an abatement of…
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