Bay House Associates, L.P. v. Jenkins

By Judge Harry T. Taliaferro, III

In this suit, Bay House Associates, L.P. (herein referred to as “Bay House” ) seeks a mandatory injunction requiring each defendant to remove the dock that reaches from that defendant’s property onto the property of Bay House. Bay House alleges ownership of a tract of land containing approximately 78.5 acres, the same being the land lying beneath what is known as Gaskins Pond. The plaintiffs claim of title is derived from a deed dated February 3,1909, from Claude Swanson, Governor of Virginia, to J. C. Jett and J. A. Palmer, Jr., recorded in the Clerk’s Office…