Sneed v. Ward

This writ of error is prosecuted to reverse a judgment for the defendants, in an action of ejectment on the demise of Achilles Sneed, who held a derivative title under a royal grant, made on the 15th of December, 1772, to John Fry, for military services rendered by him in Virginia, in the colonial wars, between 1754 and 1759.

The grant reserved an annual quit rent in fee, of one shilling for every fifty acres; required improvements, within three years, to the extent of clearing and cultivating as much as three acres for each fifty acres, and declared that, in the event of a failure, for three…