White v. Stuart, Buchanan & Co.
Supreme Court of Virginia
Appeal from decrees of the circuit court of Washington county, pronounced 18th October, 1877, and 17th February, 1879, respectively, in the two cases heard together of Stuart, Buchanan & Co., plaintiffs, against N. K. White and als., defendants, and John D. Mitchell and als'., plaintiffs, against Alexander McCall and als., defendants.
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Appeal from decrees of the circuit court of Washington county, pronounced 18th October, 1877, and 17th February, 1879, respectively, in the two cases heard together of Stuart, Buchanan & Co., plaintiffs, against N. K. White and als., defendants, and John D. Mitchell and als'., plaintiffs, against Alexander McCall and als., defendants. The defendants in the first styled cause, to-wit: Newton K. White, Milton White, Addison White, Thomas W. White, Ann Eliza Pope, William Y. C. White, executor of Miss Eleanor White, deceased, James L. White, Ellen S. Campbell, Sue P. Trigg, James W. Ogden, J. G.…
1Opinion of the CourtStaples, J.
The first appeal in this case was taken by White’s heirs from the decree of the 18th October, 1877, and from the decree of the 17th February, 1879. The second, a cross-appeal, was taken by Stuart and Palmer from the decree of the 17th February, 1879, and the third by Wyndham Bobertson from the decree of January, 1880.
The questions arising under these appeals will now be considered in their regular order.
It may be proper to premise that there are two large coterminous estates, each containing valuable salt wells, lying *549in Smyth and Washington counties. One of these estates, that in Smyth,…
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