Brooks v. Hubble
Supreme Court of Virginia
Appeal from circuit court, Tazewell county. Appeal from circuit court of city of Roanoke. Bill by Thomas J. Brooks and others against James Hubble, James E. Peery, and others. From a decree refusing to disturb a partition set up by defendants, complainants appeal, and from a decree appointing commissioners to make a partition, defendant James E. Peery appeals.
1Opinion of the CourtRiely, J.
This suit was brought to have partition of the land in Tazewell county, Ya., which belonged to Henry Marrs, the grandfather of the complainants. Henry Marrs died intestate about the year 1831, leaving a widow and nine children, one of whom, Rebecca, had married John Brooks in the year 1825. She and her husband left Tazewell county in 1855, and moved to the state of Missouri, where she died in 1872, and her husband in 1889. They also left nine children, one of whom died, leaving-four children. These children and grandchildren, heirs at law of Rebecca Brooks, instituted this suit in 1890.
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- Bolling v. TeelSupreme Court of Virginia · 1882
- Yancey v. RadfordSupreme Court of Virginia · 1890
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