Rison v. Newberry
Supreme Court of Virginia
Appeal from decree of circuit court of Wythe county, rendered February 24,1893, in a chancery cause wherein Harman Newberry was complainant and J. F. Rison, acting on behalf of certain purchasers, Ruffin and Hairston, was defendant. The decree being adverse to the defendant, he appealed. Opinion states the case.
1Opinion of the CourtLacy, J.
*514This is a suit by Harman Newberry, seeking to have specific performance of a contract in writing, made by said plaintiff with the appellant, J. F. Rison, acting on behalf of certain parties purchasers, Ruffin & Hairston, on the 2d day of April, 1890, agreeing to sell to the said parties three-fourths interest in 700 acres of his 706 acres of land in his Rent’s Mill farm, in Wythe county. The said contract sets out that the six acres so reserved are those on which the dwelling is located, which was to be laid ofi compactly with some frontage on the Norfolk & Western railroad. The price agreed…
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