Dooley v. Baynes
Supreme Court of Virginia
Appeal from decree of circuit court of Pittsylvania county rendered April 25, 1887, in the chancery eause wherein Lucy Baynes and others were complainants, and Henry 0. Dooley was defendant. The decree being in favor of the complainant, defendant appealed.
1Opinion of the Court
Lewis, P.,
delivered the opinion ot the court.
This was an action of ejectment in the circuit court of Pittsylvania county, brought by the heirs-at-law of Polly Arnett, deceased, to recover a tract of one hundred and fifty-one acres of land situate in that county. At the trial, neither party requiring a jury, the case was submitted to the court, and judgment rendered for the plaintiffs; and on a writ of error to this judgment the ease is now before us.
It appears from the record that Polly Arnett was a daughter and heir-at-law of James Woody, senior, who, it seems, died, intestate, about the…
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