Williamson v. Paxton
Supreme Court of Virginia
This is a supersedeas to a judgment in an action of unlawful detainer, brought by James G. Paxton, trustee for Rachael E. M. Buckner, against Samuel D. Williamson, trustee for Marian R. Williamson, to recover possession of a tract of land called Oakland, lying in Campbell county, near Lynchburg.
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This is a supersedeas to a judgment in an action of unlawful detainer, brought by James G. Paxton, trustee for Rachael E. M. Buckner, against Samuel D. Williamson, trustee for Marian R. Williamson, to recover possession of a tract of land called Oakland, lying in Campbell county, near Lynchburg. Issue was joined on the plea of not guilty, on which a verdict and judgment were rendered for the plaintiff in the court below ; to which judgment the defendant in that court obtained the supersedeas aforesaid. The only errors assigned are founded on two bills of exception taken by the defendant to…
1Opinion of the Court
Moncure, P.
stated the case, and then proceeded:
I have been thus full in my statement of the testimony in the case in order that the questions arising in it may be the better understood, and I will now proceed to consider those questions, which are presented, as I have already said, by two bills of exceptions taken by the defendant to opinions given by the court during the progress of the trial. I will first notice the second bill of exceptions, which was taken to the opinion and action of the court in giving certain instructions of its own, instead of others asked for by the parties…
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