Johnson v. Buzzard Island Shooting Club, Inc.

John Lofton Johnson, Eunice M. Johnson, Lois A. Johnson, and Harriett A. Hazen (collectively, the Johnsons) filed their bill of complaint on July 2, 1981, against Buzzard Island Shooting Club, Inc. (the Club), and Lewis S. Pendleton, Jr., seeking repeal of a grant of land from the Commonwealth to Pendleton in 1964 and “such further and general relief as the nature of their case may require.” The Club and Pendleton filed a special plea of the statute of limitations under Code § 8.01-238. After hearing evidence ore tenus, the chancellor ruled that the suit was not instituted within the period…