Legal Opinion

Currie v. Chowning

Supreme Court of Virginia

Decided April 25, 1895PublishedCited by 1 opinion

Appeal from circuit court, Lancaster county. Bill by one Currie and others against one Chowning. From a decree for defendant, complainants appeal.

1Opinion of the CourtRiely, J.

E. A. Currie, the father of the appellants except Gr. Gr. Hall, sold and conveyed by deed on November 2, 1853, to John S. Chowning, the father of the appellee, a certain tract of land known as “Water View,” and on February 22, 1851, before the grantor had acknowledged or delivered the deed, he and the grantee made and executed an agreement which is as follows : ‘ ‘This agreement between E. A. Currie and John S. Chowning, appended to a deed from said Currie to said Chowning, for the sale of a farm called Water View,’ in Lancaster county, and to be entered of record in the clerk’s office of…

2Cases cited1 opinion

  1. Diehl v. MarchantSupreme Court of Virginia · 1891

3Cited by1 opinion

  1. Smith's Adm'r v. Charlton's Adm'rSupreme Court of Virginia · 1851

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