Heth's v. Wooldridge's

Judge Carr

delivered his opinion.

- - On the 29th day of July, 1S07, Thomas Wooldridge sold t-o Thompson Blunt, by a contract under the seals of the parties, a ■ tract of land lying in the county o„f Chesterfield, and containing one ' hundred and twenty-eight acres, for the sum óf $2,000, payable, *605one half on the 25th December, 1807, the other half on the 25th of December, 1808; and it was farther agreed, that Blunt was to commence in the month of July, 1808, to search upon the land for coal, ■by sinking shafts or boring with bare rods, for the purpose of speedily finding the same, and to…