Madbeth, Inc. v. Weade

F. M. Weade and Lillian Weade, the plaintiffs, filed a motion for judgment against Madbeth, Incorporated, the defendant, seeking to recover the balance alleged to be due on a contract in which the plaintiffs agreed to sell and the defendant agreed to purchase two acres of land in the city of Newport News.

The defendant filed an answer in which it denied that it was indebted to the plantiffs because there were, “certain clouds on the title of the Plaintiffs to said premises,” which the plaintiffs had failed to remove. It also filed a counterclaim, asking judgment in its favor against the…