First National Exchange Bank v. Roanoke Oil Co.

This is a suit for the specific performance of a contract to sell land. The case is so largely dependent upon the facts and the construction to be put on them, that it is necessary to set out the evidence in considerable detail.

The First National Exchange Bank of Roanoke, Virginia, and R. H. Thomas, hereinafter referred to as executors, are the duly qualified executors of the estate of Paul Massie, who owned, at the time of his death, several parcels of real estate in the city of Roanoke. The Roanoke Oil Company, Incorporated, hereinafter referred to as the oil company, desiring to establish…