Spriggs v. Jamerson
Supreme Court of Virginia
Error to a judgment of the Circuit Court of Buckingham county in an action of ejectment. Judgment for th'e defendant. Plaintiffs assign error.
1Opinion of the CourtBuchanan, J.
This is an action of ejectment in which there have been three trials. In each of them there was a verdict for the defendant. The first verdict was set aside, upon the motion of the plaintiffs, by the trial court, whether for errors of law in submitting the case to the jury or because the verdict was not sustained by the evidence, does not appear. The trial court refused, upon motion of the plaintiffs, to set aside the verdict on the second trial, but upon a writ of error to this court its judgment was reversed for errors of law, the verdict set aside and the cause remanded for a new trial.…
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