Talbot v. City of Norfolk

Prentis, C. J.,

delivered tke opinion of tke court.

Tkis is an action of ejectment wkiek (a jury being waived) was submitted to tke judge of tke trial court. Tkere was a final judgment in favor of tke defendant, *854the city of Norfolk, to which the plaintiffs have been allowed a writ of error.

The facts are definite and the evidence is almost entirely documentary. The father of the • plaintiffs, William H. Talbot, by deed dated May 15, 1851, conveyed to Indian Poll Draw Bridge Company, a corporation, a strip of land thirty feet wide by 200 feet long as an abutment for a bridge, and in the same deed…