Rhule v. Seaboard Air Line Railway Co.
Supreme Court of Virginia
Error to a judgment of the Circuit Court of "Henrico county, in an action of ejectment, wherein the plaintiff in error was the plaintiff, and the defendant in error was the defendant.
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Error to a judgment of the Circuit Court of "Henrico county, in an action of ejectment, wherein the plaintiff in error was the plaintiff, and the defendant in error was the defendant. The declaration in this case is in the following words and figures: “Regenie Catharine Ruhle complains of the Seaboard Air Line, a railroad corporation chartered under the laws of the State of Virginia, of a plea of trespass, for this, to-wit: that heretofore, to-wit, on the 1st day of May, 1900, the plaintiff being seised of a certain lot of land of irregular shape lying in the county of Henrico adjoining the…
1Opinion of the Court
Keith, P.,
delivered the opinion of the court.
This is an action of ejectment, brought in the Circuit Court of Henrico county by Mrs. Ruhle against the Seaboard Air Line Railway, to recover a piece of land. There was a demurrer to the declaration upon the grounds: Eirst, that it fails to show the legal title to the property to be in the plaintiff; and, secondly, that it does not sufficiently describe the property in question.
The plaintiff introduced her evidence, and, the defendant having demurred, the jury found a verdict in favor of the plaintiff, subject to the demurrer to the evidence, for…
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