SCOTT v. SUTHERLAND

Record No. 811511.

327 S.E.2d 78 (1985)

Elizabeth P. SCOTT v. M.Y. SUTHERLAND, Jr., et al.

Supreme Court of Virginia.

March 8, 1985.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Robert P. Boyle, James Hingeley, Charlottesville (Boyle & Bain, Charlottesville, on briefs), for appellant.

Charles R. Haugh, Charlottesville (James E. Treakle, Jr., Haugh & Treakle, P.C., Charlottesville, on brief), for appellees.

Present: CARRICO, C.J., POFF, COMPTON, STEPHENSON, RUSSELL and THOMAS, JJ., and HARRISON, Retired Justice.


COMPTON, Justice.

In this suit arising from a contract for the sale of real estate, we review the action of the trial court in denying the purchaser specific performance and awarding the sellers damages.

The facts are not seriously in dispute. They are gleaned from testimony given during ore tenus hearings and from voluminous correspondence among the parties' attorneys and others involved in this controversy. The legal dispute does not turn upon widely conflicting...

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