Graybill v. Brugh
Supreme Court of Virginia
Appeal from decrees of circuit court of Botetourt county, rendered May 25th, 1890, and January 27th, 1891, in a cause wherein E. J. Brugh was complainant and Mary W. T. Gray-bill and Lewis H. Graybill, her husband, and A. Nash Johnston were defendants. The decrees being adverse to the latter, they appealed. Opinion states the case.
1Opinion of the CourtFauntleroy, J.
It appears from the record in this case that on the 12th day of March, 1888, Lewis H. Graybill bought of J. H. H. Figgat, special qommissioner of the circuit court of Botetourt county, in the cause therein pending of J. P. Thrasher against Bierly et ais., a tract of land in Botetourt county, Virginia, containing about fifty acres; that on the 3d day of February, 1890, before the purchase-money had all been paid, and before any deed had been made to Graybill for this land, the said Graybill gave to E. J. Brugh an option, in writing and under seal, for the purchase of this land by Brugh, for…
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