Virginia Mining Co. v. Wilkinson
Supreme Court of Virginia
Appeal from decrees of the Circuit Court of Carroll county, pronounced November 17, 1892, and April 28, 1893, in a suit in chancery wherein the appellant was the complainant, and the appellees were the defendants.
1Opinion of the CourtRiely, J.
We are met at the threshold in the consideration of this case by a demurrer to the bill for want of jurisdiction in equity.
*99The hill sets forth that the complainant bought of the defendants the parcel of land therein mentioned, and agreed to pay the purchase money when the defendants had executed such a deed of conveyance as was acceptable to its counsel, and the title to the land had been approved by him. It alleges also that its counsel prepared a proper deed, with general warranty, and sent it to James Wilkinson, one' of the vendors, to be executed by all of the parties, but that, instead…
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