Litz v. Rowe
Supreme Court of Virginia
Appeal from a decree of the Circuit Court of Buchanan county in a suit in chancery wherein appellants filed a petition. From an adverse decree petitioners appeal.
1Opinion of the CourtKelly, J.
(after making the foregoing statement), delivered the opinion of the court.
We are of opinion that it was error to permit the appellants to file their petition, that the.court had no jurisdiction of the matters arising thereon, and that all proceedings thereunder were null and void. The objection to the fifing of the petition, and the demurrer thereto, were both good and should have been sustained.
The petition could not have had any other effect than that which it actually produced, namely, to. call into requisition the court’s judgment upon a dispute regarding the title and boundaries of…
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