Case Name: Between WILLIAM COLE, plaintiff, and MARY SLOMAN SCOTT, executrix, and Francis Scott, James Scott, and Frederick Scott, sons of Thomas Scott, defendents
Court: High Court of Chancery of Virginia
Jurisdiction: Virginia
Decision Date: 1794-05
Citations: 2 Va. Ch. Dec. 272
Docket Number: 
Parties: Between WILLIAM COLE, plaintiff, and MARY SLOMAN SCOTT, executrix, and Francis Scott, James Scott, and Frederick Scott, sons of Thomas Scott, defendents.
Judges: 
Reporter: Decisions of the Cases in Virginia, by the High Court of Chancery (Wythe)
Volume: 2
Pages: 262–262

Head Matter:
Between WILLIAM COLE, plaintiff, and MARY SLOMAN SCOTT, executrix, and Francis Scott, James Scott, and Frederick Scott, sons of Thomas Scott, defendents.
May, 1794.
Contract to Purchase Land — Specific Execution — Bill for specific execution of agreement to purchase land. Same point as in the preceding case. Decree for sale of the land refused.
Contract — Specific Execution.— See monographic note on “Specific Performance” appended to Hanna V. Wilson, 8 Gratt. 243.

Opinion:
IN this cause, which was a bill for specific execution of an agreement to purchase land, and which was heard the 15 day of may, 1794, the court, for reasons similar to those explained in the case between Rose and Nicholas, refused to subject the land to sale for payment of the purchase money. †
[†The Court of Appeals say, 2 Wash. 141-3, that the only question was, whether the vender of land sold and in possession of the vendee, but not conveyed, has a lien upon it, so as to secure the payment of the purchase money. They held, that the appellant Cole, not having conveyed the land, nor taken any security for the balance of his purchase money, hath a lien upon the lands in the hands of the ap-pellee for satisfaction of such balance. Chancellor's decree dismissing the bill reversed. See King v. Hanson, 4 Call, 259. — Ed.]—Note in edition of 1852.