Campbell v. Prestons
Supreme Court of Virginia
This was an action of ejectment in the Circuit court of Washington county, brought in January 1869, by John S. Preston and Thomas L. Preston, claiming to be trustees of Mrs. Sarah B. Floyd, against Joseph T. Campbell, to recover a tract of thirty-three acres of land, known as the King’s mountain tract. The parties dispensed with a jury, aud submitted the whole matter ot law and fact to the court.
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This was an action of ejectment in the Circuit court of Washington county, brought in January 1869, by John S. Preston and Thomas L. Preston, claiming to be trustees of Mrs. Sarah B. Floyd, against Joseph T. Campbell, to recover a tract of thirty-three acres of land, known as the King’s mountain tract. The parties dispensed with a jury, aud submitted the whole matter ot law and fact to the court. Whereupon the court rendered a judgment in favor .of the plaintiffs for twenty acres of the land. The .defendant then excepted, and spread all the evidence upon the record, and obtained a supersedeas…
1Opinion of the CourtBouldin, J.
This is an appeal from a judgment of the .Cireu.it court of "Washington .county in an action of ejectment brought in that court by the appellees against the appellant, in January 1869. The case was substantially as follows:
Mrs. Sarah B. Preston, of "Washington county, died in July 1846, having first made her last will, which was duly admitted to probate by the County court of Wash^ ington county. By a paragraph of the third clause of the will she devised to her three sons, Wm. C., John S. and Thomas L. Preston (who were constituted her executors), certain real property therein mentioned, in…
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