Thompson v. Carpenter
Supreme Court of Virginia
Error to two orders of circuit court of Clarke county, rendered May 20th, 1889, and October 7th, 1890, respectively, in a road case wherein J. M. Carpenter and others were plaintiffs, and one Thompson and others were defendants. The judgment being adverse to the latter, they obtained a writ of error and siqyersedeas.
1Opinion of the CourtLacv, J.
*703The case.is as follows: On the 9tli day of September, 1879, J. 1ST. Carpenter and others filed a petition in county court of Clarke county, asking that, in view of the prospective extension of the Shenandoah Valley railroad through the county, and the location of a railroad station-at or near the Old Chapel, that the old road which was open many years -on the line between the lands of Colonel William Byrd and Thomas I). Hold, of said county, be opened from a point on the line between the land of said Thomas D. Hold and Rev. J. R. Jones’s corner to said Byrd, for the distance of about a…
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