Wright v. Pucket
Supreme Court of Virginia
This was a suit in equity in the Circuit court of Bus-sell county, brought in July 1868, by George W. Pucket against Milton Wright, the brother and only heir at law of Harvey Wright, deceased, to enforce the specific performance of a parol contract, which the plaintiff alleged was made by said Harvey Wright and himself, in relation to land.
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This was a suit in equity in the Circuit court of Bus-sell county, brought in July 1868, by George W. Pucket against Milton Wright, the brother and only heir at law of Harvey Wright, deceased, to enforce the specific performance of a parol contract, which the plaintiff alleged was made by said Harvey Wright and himself, in relation to land. The bill sets out that Harvey Wright, the uncle of the plaintiff', a good many years since, purchased a tract of land on Jessee’s mill creek, in the county of Russell. That the land was unimproved, and then of little value; and that Wright was then a…
1Opinion of the Court
Christian,. J.
This is a suit for the specific execution ■of an alleged parol agreement for the sale of real estate, which is sought to be taken out of the operation of the statute of frauds upon the ground of part performance.
The statute of frauds was founded in wisdom and sound policy. Its primary object was to prevent the setting up of pretended agreements, and then supporting them by perjury. But besides these direct objects, there is a manifest policy in requiring contracts of so “important a nature as the sale and purchase of real estate, to be reduced to writing; since otherwise, from…
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