Preston v. Kindrick
Supreme Court of Virginia
appeal from a decree of the Circuit Court of Washington county, pronounced May 22, 1896, in a suit in chancery wherein the appellee was the complainant, and the appellant and others were the defendants.
1Opinion of the CourtBttohanan, J.
In the year 1892 the appellant filed his bill ia the Circuit Court of Washington county to subject a parcel of land to the purchase price thereof due from one Bratton, to whom he had sold it. The bill alleged that Bratton had assigned his contract of sale to Mrs. Kindrick, one of the appellees. Both were made parties defendant to the bill. Neither of the defendants appeared, and a decree was entered taking the bill for confessed, in which it was recited that it appeared to the court that all the defendants had been duly served with process. A sale of the land was directed and made, reported…
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