Jackson v. Counts
Supreme Court of Virginia
Appeal from a decree of the Circuit Court of Dickenson county. Decree in favor of tke complainants as to some of the defendants, and in favor of the other defendants. Appeal by both parties from the decree so far as unfavorable to them respectively.
1Opinion of the CourtWhittle, J.
The essential facts out of which this controversy arose are as follows: Hazy Anderson and Chrissy Anderson, who are unmarried women about fifty years of age, each inherited from her father seventy acres of land lying on the waters of Russell Pork of Sandy River, in Dickenson county, Virginia. In the years 1898 and 1899 these sisters conveyed their respective tracts of land to C. W. Jackson and M. L. Jackson, who, on *9January 18, 1902, sold and conveyed the underlying coal to Johnson, Briggs and Pitts, of the city of Richmond, Va. On April 15, 1902, an order was made by the county court of…
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