Grinels v. Daniel
Supreme Court of Virginia
Appeal from a decree of the Circuit Court of Middlesex county. Decree for defendant. Complainant appeals.
1Opinion of the CourtBuchanan, J.
In the year 1888, S. Grinels, who was the owner of a tract of land lying in the county of Middlesex, fronting on the Rappahannock river, entered into an agreement with Georgiana Williams and Matilda S. Forhes by which he leased to them and their successors one-fourth of an acre of land, “situated on the beach of the river, together with a right of way through the lands of the said Grinels, to be used by the parties of the second part for the purposes of constructing a steamboat wharf, and to give the public an uninterrupted travel thereto and from.” The wharf was built and has ever since been…
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