Givens v. Clem
Supreme Court of Virginia
Appeal from a decree of tlie Circuit Court of Augusta county. Decree for complainant. Defendants appeal.
1Opinion of the CourtBuchanan, J.
The appellee instituted this suit against the executor, widow and children of W. O. Givens, deceased, for the specific execution of an agreement for the sale and purchase of a parcel of land belonging to the estate of the decedent, entered into between the appellee as purchaser and the executor as vendor.
The decedent devised the said land to his five children, all of whom were infants, but authorized his executor to manage and control the same during the minority of his youngest child, and to that end directed that he should receive all the rents and profits arising therefrom, and use the…
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- Trout v. PrattSupreme Court of Virginia · 1907
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