Fry v. Stowers
Supreme Court of Virginia
Error to a judgment of the Circuit Court of Bland county, rendered December 8, 1893, in an action of ejectment, wherein the defendant in error was the plaintiff and the plaintiffs in error were the defendants.
1Opinion of the CourtBuchanan, J.
• It became important during the trial of this case, which is an action of ejectment, for the plaintiff in the court below (the defendant in error here) to establish the southeastern and the southern line of the grant under which he claimed. To-do this the plaintiff himself was allowed to prove, over the objection of the defendants, the declarations of one Josiah Thompson as to where the corner and line in question were located. The action of the court in admitting such evidence is made the ground of the first assignment of error.
The law is well settled in this State that evidence is…
2Cases cited1 opinion
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