Talley v. Robinson's assignee
Supreme Court of Virginia
This is an appeal from a decree of the Circuit court of Cumberland county, in a suit brought by the appellant, "William D. Talley, against John Robinson, for the specific execution of a contract for the sale of a tract of land lying in said county, sold by Robinson to Talley by an agreement in writing, under the hand and seal of said Robinson, bearing date the 2d day of September 1864. The vendor is described in the agreement as a freeman of color, of the county of Amelia.
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This is an appeal from a decree of the Circuit court of Cumberland county, in a suit brought by the appellant, "William D. Talley, against John Robinson, for the specific execution of a contract for the sale of a tract of land lying in said county, sold by Robinson to Talley by an agreement in writing, under the hand and seal of said Robinson, bearing date the 2d day of September 1864. The vendor is described in the agreement as a freeman of color, of the county of Amelia. The quantity of the land is not mentioned in the agreement, though the laud is therein otherwise sufficiently described.…
1Opinion of the Court
Monguee, P.
delivered the opinion of the court. After stating the case he proceeded as follows:
The ground of inadequacy of consideration relied on in this case, in resistance of the claim for the specific performance of the contract in the proceedings mentioned, is wholly unsustainable. In the first place, there is no proof of such inadequacy in the case. There is no proof that the land was not sold for its full value, in •Confederate money. There is no proof as to what it was worth in Confederate money. There was some proof as to what it was worth in gold, or its equivalent, at the time of…
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