Tyson v. Williamson
Supreme Court of Virginia
Error to a judgment of the Circuit Court of Rockbridge county rendered September 8, 1897, in an action of debt wherein the defendant in error was the plaintiff, and the plaintiff in error was the defendant. The pleadings and evidence sufficiently appear in the opinion of the court. After all the evidence had been introduced, the defendant offered the following instructions, which were refused: “Fourth.
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Error to a judgment of the Circuit Court of Rockbridge county rendered September 8, 1897, in an action of debt wherein the defendant in error was the plaintiff, and the plaintiff in error was the defendant. The pleadings and evidence sufficiently appear in the opinion of the court. After all the evidence had been introduced, the defendant offered the following instructions, which were refused: “Fourth. That if the jury believe from the evidence that this lot had been placed by the plaintiff in the hands of Brennaman, as a real estate agent, to sell the same, and that said Brennaman authorized…
1Opinion of the CourtBuchanan, J.
The first error assigned is the action of the lower court rejecting pleas numbered one and four, and striking out a portion of plea numbered two, offered by the defendant Tyson.
The defence attempted to be set up in plea No. 1, and in that portion of plea No. 2 which the court ordered to be stricken out, was substantially the same. It was averred in those pleas that the defendant was induced to enter into the contract for the purchase of the lot for which the bond sued on was executed by certain representations as to the solvency of one McBryde; that these representations were false and…
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