Huntington & Kenova L. D. Co. v. Thornburg

Dent, President :

The Huntington & Kenova Land Development Company filed its bill and amended bill against the administrators and heirs of J. N. Thornburg, deceased, in the circuit court of Cabell County, seeking to enforce specific performance of an alleged verbal contract partly performed. The court, at the hearing of the case, refused the relief sought; hence this appeal. The allegation of the bill in relation to the matter is as follows:

“That on the 1st day of August 1891, it was seised and possessed by a good fee-simple title of the following described lots or parcels of land, situated in…