Moore v. Harnsberger's ex'ors

Citations

• 26 Va. 667
• 26 Gratt. 667

Syllabus

<p>1. A sale of land by executors in October 1862, beld, upon tbe time of sale, the surrounding circumstances and the evidence, to have been made with reference to Confederate States treasury notes as the standard of value, and therefore that the purchase money was to be scaled as of the date of the sale.</p> <p>2. A case in which the value of the land at the time of the sale was held to be the proper measure of recovery.</p> <p>3. An otfer by a purchaser to one of the executors, a short time after it fell due, to pay the first bond due for the purchase money, he not showing any money, was not a good tender.</p>