Leonard v. St. John
Supreme Court of Virginia
Appeal from a decree of the Oircuit Court of Smyth county pronounced September 13, 1902, in a suit in chancery wherein the appellee was the complainant, and the appellants were the defendants.
1Opinion of the CourtCardwell, J.
The complainant, A. E. St. John, and the defendants, William E. Leonard and others, own adjoining lands in Smyth county, separated by a public road, the general direction of which road is about north and south, the division line between the two tracts being in the middle, or nearer the west line, of the road. On the east side of this road, just inside of the defendants’ land, as inclosed, there is a strip of bottom and swampy land parallel to the road the whole length of the defendants’ land bordering on the road, and extending over the road upon the complainant’s land at several points.…
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