Peterson v. Ankrom

Snyder, Judge:

Writ of error to a judgment of the circuit court of Tyler county, rendered in an action of ejectment brought in July, 1868, by Sarah Gr. Peterson against Arthur Ankrom and others to recover the possession of a tract of 1,000 acres of land lying on the waters of Point Pleasant creek, in said county. A trial was had before a jury in August, 1882, and a verdict found and judgment given for the defendant. Upon the trial the plaintiff, after having read in ■ evidence a copy of the grant for said land from the Commonwealth of Virginia to James Caldwell, dated October 25, 1774, offered…