Field v. Brown
Supreme Court of Virginia
*In Hay 1866 Lewis Y. Yield brought an action on the case in the Circuit court of Culpeper, against John Brown and Y. T. Brown.
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*In Hay 1866 Lewis Y. Yield brought an action on the case in the Circuit court of Culpeper, against John Brown and Y. T. Brown. The declaration recited that whereas the plaintiff, on the -day of-, 1850, and long before that time, and ever since, was and is the owner of a tract of land of about seven hundred acres, bordering on Hazle river in said county; and one George Yicklin, now deceased, the former owner of the land on said river, just below the lands of the plaintiff, upon which there was a mill seat, erected across the bed of the river a dam -feet in height, and a long abutment on the…
1Opinion of the CourtBouldin, J.
This case is before us on a writ of error to a judgment of the Circuit court of Madison county, at a special term thereof, held in August 1870, in an action on the case brought by the appellant against the appellees, to recover damages for injury alleged by the appellant to have been done to his land by a dam alleged by him to have been illegally erected across the stream below, by one George Ficklin, under whom the appellees claim, and continued by said appellees down to the institution of the suit; *37and the single defence was, that the defendants were protected in their alleged right to…
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- Pillow v. Southwest Virginia Improvement Co.Supreme Court of Virginia · 1895
- Rose & Co. v. BrownWest Virginia Supreme Court · 1877
- Fant v. MillerSupreme Court of Virginia · 1867
- Martin v. South Salem Land Co.Supreme Court of Virginia · 1896
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