Douthat v. Chesapeake & Ohio Railway Co.

W. W. Douthat was the owner of a tract of land in Botetourt county on which was a stone quarry. From it he took stone, which he sold to the Railway. Company. Later he sold all of his lands to one Thomas, reserving, however, a ten and one-half acre lot on which was located what is known as the Old Stone Quarry at Price’s Bluff. After this he left Botetourt county and practically abandoned the lot which he had retained. Taxes stood delinquent from 1907 to 1936. This lot, except for the quarry on it, was practically worthless. Afterwards, and to secure stone for riprapping purposes, the Railway…