Legal Opinion
Watts v. Holland
Supreme Court of Virginia
Decided September 15, 1890PublishedCited by 8 opinions
Argued at Wytheville. Decided at Staunton. Error to judgment of circuit court of Tazewell county, rendered June 10, 1889, in an action of assumpsit, wherein C. GL Holland was plaintiff, and John Gf. Watts, J. W. Baker and M. J. Beavers, the plaintiffs in error, were defendants.
1Opinion of the Court
Lewis, P.,
delivered the opinion of the court.
*1000This controversy arose out of a certain contract in writing, which is as follows :
“ This contract, made this, the 14th day of March, 1887, between Jno. Gr. Watts, J. W. Baker and J. M. Beavers, of the first part, and C. Gr. Holland, of the second part, witnesseth: that whereas, on the 14th December, 1886, the said Baker and Beavers granted a written option on about ten thousand acres of land, lying mostly in McDowell county, W. Ya., for coal interest, and in part in fee simple, to John Gr. Watts, which was assigned by the said Watts to A. S.…
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