Hobbs v. Shumates
Supreme Court of Virginia
This was a writ of right brought in the Circuit court of Gthes county by Thomas J. Hobbs against Thompson and Wilson Shumate, for the recovery of a tract of land containing fifty acres.
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This was a writ of right brought in the Circuit court of Gthes county by Thomas J. Hobbs against Thompson and Wilson Shumate, for the recovery of a tract of land containing fifty acres. On the trial the demandant having first proved that Michael Erskine was deputy sheriff of Monroe county, Virginia, at the time he sold and conveyed to William Vawter under whom the demandant claims, the land which is alleged by the demandant to be the land in controversy, then proposed to offer in evidence the deed ' executed by Erskine to Vawter. This deed bore date the 30th day of August 1815, and purported…
1Opinion of the Court
ALLEN, P.
This was a writ of right, in which there was a verdict and judgment for the tenant. On the trial the demand-ant filed two bills of exceptions to decisions of the court against him. By the first bill *of exceptions it appears, that the demandant having first proved that Michael Erskine was deputy sheriff of Monroe county at the time he sold and conveyed to William Vawter under whom the demandant claimed the land alleged by him to be the land in controversy, proposed to offer a deed in evidence which is set forth in the bill of exceptions. It purports to be a deed executed by said…
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