Supreme Court of Virginia February 6, 1896 (Chapman v. Chapman's Trustee)

Harrison, J.,

delivered the opinion of the court.

It appears from the record that in 1870 Thomas W. Chap*538man, then unmarried, made a verbal contract with Thomas A. Chapman, by which he sold the latter a tract of 560 acres of land. The purchaser paid in cash $100.00, and was immediately put in possession.

Thomas W. Chapman, the vendor, married in 1878, without having made his vendee a deed.