Neale v. Jones

This is an appeal from an interlocutory decree in chancery, in which we determine whether the trial court properly denied rescission of leases of sand and gravel mining rights.

In 1981, appellants C. T. Neale, Jr., June E. Neale, Martha Snead Neale, C. T. Neale, III, Mary W. Neale, Albert E. Neale, and William E. Neale, filed a bill of complaint in the court below against appellee Irvin Barton Jones, III. The controversy arose from two nearly identical leases pertaining to 1,565 acres of land in Caroline County. Known as the “Goose Pond Tract,” the property lies adjacent to the Mattaponi…