Hotchkiss v. Middlekauf
Supreme Court of Virginia
Appeal from a decree of the Circuit Court of Rockingham county pronounced Hovember 2, 1895, in a suit in chancery wherein the appellee, Samuel Middlekauf, and others were the complainants, and the appellant and others were the defendants.
1Opinion of the Court
Keith, P.,
delivered the opinion of the court.
Hotchkiss, trustee, brought an action of ejectment in the Circuit Court of Rockingham county against Samuel Middlekauf and others to recover 5,000 acres of land lying in said county. Before this cause was tried, the defendants filed a bill in chancery in which they allege that the 5,000 acres, which is the subject-matter of the ejectment suit, was part of a larger tract of land originally granted by the Commonwealth on the 8th of February, 1796, to one G-ambill, and that by virtue of certain deeds they have become the owners of the land in…
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