Saunders v. Terry

This appeal is from a decree entered by the Corporation Court of the city of Lynchburg in a chancery cause removed to that court from the Circuit Court of Halifax county, instituted by appellee against appellant, the purpose of which was to have partition of a tract of 100 acres of land situated in Halifax county, the bill alleging that appellee, plaintiff below, owned one moiety of the land and appellant, defendant below, the remaining moiety.

The material 'facts in the case may be summarized as follows: John Vaughan was the owner of the land in question by deed conveying the same to him from…