Mauzy v. Sellars
Supreme Court of Virginia
This was a suit in equity in the Circuit court of Rockingham county, instituted in September 1872, by T. N. Sellars and three others, sureties, of Joseph N. Mauzy, to subject his real estate to satisfy a judgment which had been recovered against him and the plaintiffs.
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This was a suit in equity in the Circuit court of Rockingham county, instituted in September 1872, by T. N. Sellars and three others, sureties, of Joseph N. Mauzy, to subject his real estate to satisfy a judgment which had been recovered against him and the plaintiffs. They set out in their bill that Joseph N. Mauzy owned one undivided half of a tract of land called the “Nicholas farm,” one-fourth of which tract he inherited, and another fourth he had purchased from Thomas G. Mauzy; and that the said Joseph owned a half interest in what is known as the “Montevideo store-house,” one-fourth of…
1Opinion of the Court
Staples J.
delivered the opinion of the court.
This is a controversy growing out of an alleged mistake in a written agreement for the sale of certain real property. By the terms of this agreement, Thos. G. Mauzy sold to his brother Joseph hT. Mauzy, “his interest in the property known as the ‘John hTicholas farm,’ together with all his undivided interest in the lands now owned by the said parties.” At the date of the sale the vendor and vendee each owned an undivided fourth in “the hTicholas farm,” in several tracts of mountain land, and also in a small lot upon which was situated a mansion…
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