Martin v. South Bluefield Land Co.

Lynch, President:

This case, which is before us to review a decree dismissing the plaintiff’s bill on final hearing, presents for decision the question whether equity has jurisdiction upon the facts alleged and controverted to require specific performance of an oral agreement, collateral to a deed of conveyance, to improve lands of the vendor other than those conveyed and in close proximity to them and certain public streets and ways, when the purpose of the agreement was to induce the vendee to purchase and but for which he would not have purchased the part conveyed, or to cancel the deed and…