Grubb v. Starkey
Supreme Court of Virginia
Appeal from decree of circuit court of Botetourt county. Opinion states the case.
1Opinion of the Court
Lewis, P.,
delivered the opinion of the court.
*832This was a suit for specific performance. In April, 1887, the appellees conveyed to the appellants, defendants below, a tract of land containing about nineteen acres, adjoining the lands of the Lynchburg Iron Company, situate in Botetourt county. Below and contiguous to this land is a grazing farm owned by the appellees, which at the time of the conveyance to the appellants was mainly (if not solely) watered by a stream flowing through both tracts. The land was purchased by the appellants for the purpose of erecting and operating thereon an…
2Cases cited5 opinions
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