Baylor's lessee v. Dejarnette
Supreme Court of Virginia
This was an action of ejectment in the Circuit court of Caroline county by the lessee of John N. Baylor against Daniel Dejarnette in his lifetime, and on his death revived against his devisee John H. Dejarnette.
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This was an action of ejectment in the Circuit court of Caroline county by the lessee of John N. Baylor against Daniel Dejarnette in his lifetime, and on his death revived against his devisee John H. Dejarnette. The matters in controversy were submitted to the court on a case agreed, in which it was agreed that the court in giving judgment upon the case should be at liberty to draw all fair inferences which a jury might draw from the statement of facts and evidence; and a record and deed were made a part of the case to which the plaintiff excepted, and his exceptions were to be considered as…
1Opinion of the CourtLee, J.
As the lessor of the plaintiff exactly fills the description given of the devisee in remainder after the expiration of the life estate devised to George D. *163Baylor in the half of the New Market estate embracing the premises now in controversy, by the will of his father John Baylor 2d, being the oldest son George D. Baylor and having survived his father, and as he brought his suit in a short time (less than three years) after the death of his father, he must recover unless the title which he was to take upon the death of George D. Baylor was intercepted by the decree in the case of the D unlops…
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