Moore v. Simpson

*49Opinion of the Court,

by Judge Mills.

THE complainant in the court below, now defendant in error, presented his bill, alleging that Juba Moore had sold him a house, unfinished, and had entered into articles of agreement, or executed a written instrument, engaging to have the house finished, and specifying what was to be done thereto, and to surrender possession of it; that the possession was surrendered, but nothing was done towards the completion of the house; that Moore had left the commonwealth with an intention of never returning, as the plaintiff believed, and was engaged in the South…