Howard v. Gose
Supreme Court of Virginia
Appeal from a decree of the Circuit Court of Russell county. From the rulings of the trial court on exceptions to the report of the commissioner settling the account of a receiver, complainants appeal.
1Opinion of the CourtBuchanan, J.
The errors assigned in the petition for appeal are based upon the action of the court in passing upon exceptions to a commissioner’s report settling the accounts of J. E. Duff as receiver in the cause.
In the year 1905 Jack Carter entered into an agreement with W. H. Gose and J. J. Campbell, by which he sold them a certain boundary of timber for the sum of $3,000. Of this sum $1,000 was paid in cash, and the residue was to be paid in eighteen months from the date of the contract. A lien was reserved upon the timber to secure the payment of the deferred purchase price. The vendees were to have…
2Cases cited1 opinion
- Hall v. HallSupreme Court of Virginia · 1906
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