Dobyns' Adm'x v. Waring

Citations

• 82 Va. 159
• 1886 Va. LEXIS 19

Syllabus

<p>1. Lands—Unrecorded contracts—Creditors.—Under Code 1873, eh. 114, see. 5, unrecorded contracts for the sale of real estate are void as to creditors with or without notice. Guerrant v. Anderson, 4 Rand. 208.</p> <p>2. Idem—Case at bar.—-In case here the evidence proves that there was a written contract for the sale of real estate that was not recorded befe .re a creditor had got and docketed his judgment against the vendor; and the ease does not come within the principle of Floyd v. Harding, 28 Gratt. 401.</p>