Christy v. Minor
Supreme Court of Virginia
ON the trial of an action of ejectment for several lots m the . . . town or Fredericksburg, m behalf 01 John Minor against Joseph Christy, the plaintiff, to support the issue on his part joined, introduced a deed, bearing date the 18th of March, 1805, from Joseph Scott, marshal of the Virginia District, reciting, “ that, whereas, bv the 12th section of an act of the *■ v congress of the United States, entitled, “An act to lay and colIcct a direct tax within the United…
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ON the trial of an action of ejectment for several lots m the . . . town or Fredericksburg, m behalf 01 John Minor against Joseph Christy, the plaintiff, to support the issue on his part joined, introduced a deed, bearing date the 18th of March, 1805, from Joseph Scott, marshal of the Virginia District, reciting, “ that, whereas, bv the 12th section of an act of the *■ v congress of the United States, entitled, “An act to lay and colIcct a direct tax within the United States,” passed on the 14th day of July, in the year 1798, it is enacted, that, when any tax assessed on lands or houses shall…
1Opinion of the Court
the president pronounced the court’s opinion, “ that the deed from Scott to Minor, stated in the bill of exceptions, though proper evidence of a conveyance from the former to the latter, yet was no evidence, without other proof, of the authority of Scott to sell and convey under the several acts of congress recited therein ; and that the judge of the Superior Court erred in his instruction to the jury, that it was sufficient evidence ; if such instruction, without separating the law from the fact, would in any case be proper.”(1)
Judgment reversed; verdict set aside; and cause remand? ed for a…
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