Grizzle v. Sutherland
Supreme Court of Virginia
Argued at Wythoville. . Decided at Richmond. Appeal from decree of circuit court of Russell county, rendered January 10th, 1890, in a cause wherein one Sutherland was complainant, and the plaintiffs in error, William J. Grizzle and Polly, his wife, were defendants. The object of the suit was specific performance of a sale of trees at ten per cent, of their value.
1Opinion of the CourtLacy, J.
The bill was filed by the appellee, Sutherland, against William J. Grizzle and Polly, his wife, to obtain specific performance of a contract in writing, made by the said William J. *585Grizzle, for the sale to the said appellee of the trees — twenty-four inches in diameter four feet 'above the surface of the ground' — at the price of fifteen cents per tree, and to set aside a sale of the land from the husband to the wife, alleged to have been subsecpientlv made, although the contract of sale was dated before.
The contract sought to be enforced was dated January 2, 1888, and the bill ivas filed…
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