James Riv. & Kan. Co. v. Thompson
Supreme Court of Virginia
This was an action of ejectment brought by the James River and Kanawha Company against Philip *R. Thompson and James T. Teays, to recover the land on both banks of Cole river, on which the abutments of a bridge across that river were built by Thompson and Teays. The.
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This was an action of ejectment brought by the James River and Kanawha Company against Philip *R. Thompson and James T. Teays, to recover the land on both banks of Cole river, on which the abutments of a bridge across that river were built by Thompson and Teays. The. Judge of the Circuit Superior Court of Kanawha county, in which the suit was brought, being a stockholder in the James River and Kanawha Company, sent the cause to the Circuit Superior Court of Pay-ette county, where it came on to be tried in September 1840, when the jury found a special verdict. The substance of that special…
1Opinion of the Court
By the Court.
The Court is of opinion, that the matters of law arising- upon the facts found in the special verdict, and the facts agreed by the parties, is for the plaintiff; therefore that the said judgment is erroneous; that the said judgment be reversed and annulled; and that the plaintiff recover against the defendants his costs here expended. And this Court proceeding to give such judgment as the said Circuit Court ought to have given, it is considered that the plaintiff recover *against the defendants the land in the declaration mentioned, located by the engineer for the use of the…
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