1854-009: Emanuel Grove v. Peter B. Borst and David McKay

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Emanuel Grove claimed there was a verbal agreement to go to Greene County and bid together with the Peter B. Borst and David McKay for the first 14 miles of the Rockingham Turnpike Road from Stanardsville to Harrisonburg. Grove said that Borst and McKay refused to consider Grove as one of the said firm and denied him the profits of said contracts. Borst and McKay countered that there was no agreement and no partnership. Enslaved workers were hired to build the road.

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