Bocock's Ex'or v. Alleghany Coal & Iron Co.
Supreme Court of Virginia
' Appeal from a decree of the chancery court of the city of Richmond, rendered July 9th, 1883, in the suit therein pending wherein Thomas S. Bocock, executor of N. F. Bocock, deceased, O. R. Bocock and Peter A. Forbes, who sue for the benefit of D. A. Parrack, were complainants, and the Alleghany Coal and Iron Company, H. C. Parsons, G. McNeill, Murrillo Spaulding and F. B. Deane were defendants.
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' Appeal from a decree of the chancery court of the city of Richmond, rendered July 9th, 1883, in the suit therein pending wherein Thomas S. Bocock, executor of N. F. Bocock, deceased, O. R. Bocock and Peter A. Forbes, who sue for the benefit of D. A. Parrack, were complainants, and the Alleghany Coal and Iron Company, H. C. Parsons, G. McNeill, Murrillo Spaulding and F. B. Deane were defendants. The object of the suit was to compel the specific performance on the part of the defendant, the Alleghany Coal and Iron Company, of a contract alleged to have been entered into by said defendant with…
1Opinion of the CourtRichardson, J.
(after stating the case), delivered the opinion of the court.
After a pains-taking examination of the record, we are of opinion that there is no error in the decree complained of, and that the same should be affirmed. The burden of proof was on the appellants. The allegation of the bill that the defendant company was the real purchaser of the land sold by the appellants on the 14th of June, 1881, to “F. B. Deane and his associates,” was positively denied by the answer of the defendant company, and the appellants wholly failed to prove the allegation.
By the constitution of the company, as we…
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