Johnson v. Ronald's Administrator
Supreme Court of Virginia
Jacob Johnson filed his bill in the Superior Court Chancery for the Richmond District, against the adminisJ trator and heirs of William Ronald deceased, for the purpose of obtaining conveyances for two tracts of land, in conformity with a contract between the complainant and the said Ronald in his lifetime ; which lands the complainant alledged, he had purchased at five dollars per acre, and fully paid for by 1 sundry work done as a carpenter, and other services renderv ed…
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Jacob Johnson filed his bill in the Superior Court Chancery for the Richmond District, against the adminisJ trator and heirs of William Ronald deceased, for the purpose of obtaining conveyances for two tracts of land, in conformity with a contract between the complainant and the said Ronald in his lifetime ; which lands the complainant alledged, he had purchased at five dollars per acre, and fully paid for by 1 sundry work done as a carpenter, and other services renderv ed to the decedent, who had put him in possession of the lands but failed to execute deeds. The administrator demurred to…
1Opinion of the Court
the president pronounced the opinion of the Court, that the note of William Ronald to the appellant, the authenticity of which is admitted by the answer of the appellees, is sufficient evidence of the contract for two tracts of land, one of twenty-five acres, and the other of one hundred and fifty acres, as is set forth in the bill; that, rating the said lands at five dollars per acre, the *80price alledged in the bill, and proved by one witness to have been assented to by the said William Ronald, it appears, by the report of the commissioner, and the evidence therein referred to, that the full…
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