Parkersburg Industrial Co. v. Schultz

BraNNON, Judge:

This is an action of ejectment brought by the Parkers-burg Industrial Company against Otto Schultz and others to recover six coterminous town lots, numbered from seven t.o twelve, inclusive, containing one hundred and twenty-six poles in the aggregate, lying near the mouth of the Little Kanawha river, on the south side of it from Park-ersburg'. The plaintiff traced title from the State of Virginia under two patents, — one to James Neal, dated September 14, 1785, for four hundred acres, and one to John Stokely, for one thousand two hundred acres, dated May 9, .1804. In the line…