FIREBAUGH v. HANBACK

Record No. 930713.

443 S.E.2d 134 (1994)

Richard C. FIREBAUGH and Eugene D. Lunsford v. Edwin Murray HANBACK, Trustee and John C. Richards, Trustee, Trustees for Ye Old Hunters Club.

Supreme Court of Virginia.

April 15, 1994.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Katherine Carruth Link, Staunton (Frank L. Summers, Jr., Nelson, McPherson, Summers & Santos, on brief), for appellants.

Benham M. Black, Staunton (Black, Noland & Read, on brief), for appellees.

Present: CARRICO, C.J., COMPTON, WHITING, LACY, HASSELL and KEENAN, JJ., and POFF, Senior Justice.


POFF, Senior Justice.

We awarded this appeal to consider whether two real estate agents who had entered into a contract to purchase real estate owned by their principal were entitled to specific performance of that contract. We will uphold the chancellor's judgment denying the prayer of the purchasers' bill of complaint.

The chancellor based his decision on a finding that the agents breached the fiduciary duty they owed to their principal. We will summarize...

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