Sanford v. Sims

This case involves the question of ownership of a lot of land in the town of Orange as between the successors of the grantee in a deed and the devisees of the grantor under a reverter clause in the same deed. The appellants are, the devisees of Joseph H. Johnson, who died in 1893. The appellees are successors in title of his grantee.

The facts are not in dispute. The property involved was formerly owned by Joseph H. Johnson and is part of a somewhat larger lot conveyed by him by deed of August 14, 1878, to Potomac, Fredericksburg & Piedmont Eailroad Company and its successors, “To Have and To…