Virginia Coal & Iron Co. v. Roberson
Supreme Court of Virginia
Appeal from decree of circuit court of Wise county, rendered September 19tb, 1890, in a suit wherein tbe Virginia Goal and Iron Company and tbe Big Stone Gap Improvement Company instituted in December, 1889, against J. M. Eoberson and Letitia D. Eoberson, his wife, for the purpose of compelling them to perform specifically a contract for tbe sale of certain lands in the bill described. Tbe decree was adverse to tbe complainants and they appealed to this court.
1Opinion of the Court
Lacy, L,
delivered the opinion of the court.
The alleged contract for the sale of this land was a deed made by the said defendants for the land in question to one Charles W. Kilgore, which, by successive conveyance, had passed to the plaintiffs.
The deed was made on the 1st day of March, 1880, and the certificate of acknowledgment was signed the same day, and the writing was admitted to record.
The appellant, regarding the certificate of acknowledgment as insufficient to authorize the recordation of the deed as to the married woman, so as to pass her right therein, brought ■ this suit to. compel…
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