Tunstall's Adm'r v. Withers
Supreme Court of Virginia
Appeal from decree of corporation court of Danville rendered March 11,1889, in the cause of Joseph D. Blair, administrator de bonis non of W. II. Tunstall, deceased, complainant (appellant here), against. E. D. Withers and others, defendants, the object of the suit being to enforce a vendor’s lien.
1Opinion of the Court
Lewis, P.,
delivered the opinion of the court.
This suit was brought by the appellant as the administrator d. b. n. of William H. Tunstall, deceased,the vendor, and was commenced in duly, 1886. The land was sold and conveyed by Tunstall to the appellee, Withers, in July, 1860, the consideration therefor being one thousand dollars, of which one-third was paid in cash, and for the residue a lien was reserved on the face of the deed. There was no other written evidence of the debt, except that it was charged on Tunstall’s books.
In 1858 Tunstall, who for many years had been clerk of the circuit…
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