Randolph justices v. Stalnaker
Supreme Court of Virginia
This was a mandamus issued by the Circuit court of Randolph county, on the motion of Hamilton Stalnaker, to the justices of the County court of Randolph, requiring them to admit to record the report of the surveyor of the county in relation to a tract of land sold by the sheriff for the taxes due upon it. The facts are stated by Judge Allen in his opinion.
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This was a mandamus issued by the Circuit court of Randolph county, on the motion of Hamilton Stalnaker, to the justices of the County court of Randolph, requiring them to admit to record the report of the surveyor of the county in relation to a tract of land sold by the sheriff for the taxes due upon it. The facts are stated by Judge Allen in his opinion. The Circuit court awarded a peremptory mandamus; and the justices thereupon applied to one of the judges of this court for a supersedeas, which was allowed.
1Opinion of the Court
Allen, P.
The sheriff of Randolph county having sold a tract of land in said county on the 24th of September 1850 for the nonpayment of taxes due *524thereon, the appellee became the purchaser, as appears by the list of sales returned by the sheriff, and received the sheriff his receipt for the price. The sale was ^ie entire tract; and on the 29th of June 1853 ^ie survey°r c°nnty made a report in pursuance ’ of the act found in the Code, ch. 37, § 15, p. 203 ; and the appellee moved the court to have it recorded. The motion was continued ; and at the July term the appellee renewed his motion to…
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