Wilcher v. Robertson
Supreme Court of Virginia
Error to judgment of circuit court of Augusta county, rendered 9th April, 1883, in action of ejectment removed thither from Alleghany county, and wherein Harrison Robertson was plaintiff and John H. Wilcher, Alexander Wilcher, George T. Wickes and Daniel B. Leighton were defendants.
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Error to judgment of circuit court of Augusta county, rendered 9th April, 1883, in action of ejectment removed thither from Alleghany county, and wherein Harrison Robertson was plaintiff and John H. Wilcher, Alexander Wilcher, George T. Wickes and Daniel B. Leighton were defendants. The land actually in controversy was about 150 acres, being a portion of a tract granted by the Commonwealth to Richard Wilcher by patent, dated June 1st, 1852. About 150 acres of said tract is covered by an older patent from the Commonwealth, issued December 4th, 1795, for 14,000 acres, to Benjamin Martin. The…
1Opinion of the Court
Lewis, P.,
delivered the opinion of the court.
This was an action of ejectment in the circuit court of Augusta county, removed thereto for trial from the circuit court of Alleghany county. The plaintiff claimed title to the land in controversy by deed from David I. Wilson, to whom it had been conveyed in 1840 by Thos. J. Stuart, commissioner of sale of the circuit superior court of law and chancery of Augusta county, acting under a decree of that court, in a suit begun therein, in 1829. The defendants claimed under Richard Wilcher, to whom a patent for the land was granted by the Commonwealth…
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