Avant v. Cook
Supreme Court of Virginia
Error to a judgment of the Circuit Court of Botetourt county in an action of ejectment. Judgment for the defendants. Plaintiffs assign error.
1Opinion of the CourtHarrisok, J.
This action of ejectment was instituted by the heirs at law of Priscilla Gross against the executor and devisees of Thomas Gross, who was the husband of Priscilla Gross, to recover a certain tract of land which was devised by Thomas Gross to Lucy Eoe and others, containing two hundred acres.
A jury was waived and all matters of law and fact were submitted to the court with the result that a judgment was entered for the defendants, to which judgment this writ of error was awarded upon the petition of the plaintiffs.
It appears that in January, 1868, George Layman and wife conveyed a tract of…
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