Sergeant v. Denby
Supreme Court of Virginia
Appeal from decree of circuit court of Norfolk city, rendered September 10th, 1889, in a chancery cause wherein William Denby, Jr., was complainant, and Elizabeth P. Sergeant and W. H. Sergeant, her husband, and others were defendants. The decree being adverse to Sergeant and wife, they appealed. Opinion states the case.
1Opinion of the Court
Lewis, P.,
delivered the opinion of the court.
The case, briefly -stated, is as follows:
In July, 1887, Mrs. Elizabeth F. Sergeant, being ‘the owner of two lots in Norfolk, one situate on the east side, the other on the west side, of Boush street, contracted, through her *207husband and agent, Wm. H. Sergeant, with Dykes & Wilkins, general contractors, to construct, and to furnish all the materials requisite for the completion of, two two-story brick dwellings thereon. The contract was not for so much money for each house, but the agreement was “that the price of said materials and of doing and…
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