Van Gunden v. Kane
Supreme Court of Virginia
Argued, at Wythe ville. Decided at Richmond. Error to judgment of circuit court- of Scott county, rendered November 26.th, 1890, on appeal from the county court of said county, in an action of unlawful detainer, wherein J. P. Kane was plaintiff, and the plaintiffs in error, Christian Van Gunden, Edward T. Partridge, Prank Britton, and Charles A. Poster, were defendants.
1Opinion of the CourtPauntleroy, J.
*592It appears from tlte record that J. P. Kane, on the 15th day of Feburary, 1890, sued out of the clerk’s office of the county court of Scott county, a writ of unlawful detainer against David II. Bishop, to recover the possession of a tract of land in Scott county, Virginia, described by metes and bounds and containing 500 acres more or less, upon which said tract of land he alleged in his said writ, the said David Bishop had unlawfully entered, and the possession of which he unlawfully detains and withholds from him the said J. P. Kane.
The said J. P. Kane claimed title to the said tract of…
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