Chess v. Grant
Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit
In Error to the Circuit Court of the United States for the Northern District of West Virginia, at Clarksburg.
1Opinion of the Court
PRITCHARD, Circuit Judge.
This is an action of ejectment instituted in the Circuit Court of the United States for the Northern District of West Virginia, at Clarksburg, by the plaintiffs in error, together with their late brother, Walter Chess, now deceased, against the defendant in error, Edward M. Grant, for the recovery of a tract of land lying on Cheat river, in Monongalia county, W. Va., in the possession of the defendant in error.
The declaration demands a tract of 273 acres described by the metes and bounds of what is known as the “Ramsey & Shaw Patent,” as to all of which, except a…
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