Rowletts v. Daniel
Supreme Court of Virginia
AT the trial of an ejectment in the Superior Court of Dinwiddie county, in April 1812, the plaintiff, lessee of William Rowlett and Daniel Rowlett, offered in evidence a copy, certified in the usual form, by the clerk of Dinwiddie County Court, of a deed executed by Henry Daniel, sen. (who was, at the time oi executing the same, lawfully seised and possessefi of the premises in the declaration mentioned,) to Hen-1 ry Daniel, jun.
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AT the trial of an ejectment in the Superior Court of Dinwiddie county, in April 1812, the plaintiff, lessee of William Rowlett and Daniel Rowlett, offered in evidence a copy, certified in the usual form, by the clerk of Dinwiddie County Court, of a deed executed by Henry Daniel, sen. (who was, at the time oi executing the same, lawfully seised and possessefi of the premises in the declaration mentioned,) to Hen-1 ry Daniel, jun. (under whom the lessors of the plaintiff claimed,) elated the —-day of-----in the year 1765, and recorded, on the acknowledgment of the grantor, in Dinwiddie October…
1Opinion of the Court
the president pronounced the court’s opinion, “ that there is- no error in the several instructions given to the jury, as stated in the several bills of exceptions, except the last. The two deeds from Henry Daniel to Harlow Daniel, on which that instruction was given, the court is of opinion,- did not work a disseisin of the *483said Henry Daniel, whose possession was the possession of Lockey Rowlett, nor convert the possession of Henry Daniel into an adversary possession, so as to deprive the lessors of the plaintiff, who claim under the said Lockey Rowlett, of this action ; and that the said…
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