Stuart v. Meade
Supreme Court of Virginia
Error to judgments of the Circuit Court of Russell county, in two actions of ejectment. Judgments for the defendant. Plaintiffs severally assign error.
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Error to judgments of the Circuit Court of Russell county, in two actions of ejectment. Judgments for the defendant. Plaintiffs severally assign error. On the 2nd day of October, 1871, Elizabeth T. Johnson and Lonisa M. Johnson, of the one part, and W. A. Stuart, of the other part, owning adjoining tracts of land, entered into a written agreement, which, literally quoted, was that, “the said parties have lately made a fence on or near the line between them running from Gilbert’s line to the corner between said Johnsons and Stuart, a distance of eight or nine hundred panels of fence, now it is…
1Opinion of the CourtKelly, J.
It must be, and as we understand it is, conceded as a legal conclusion from the foregoing facts that, from 1871, the date of the line fence agreement, down to 1897, the date of the conveyance from Louisa M. Webb to Emily J. Meade and her children, including the eighteen years during which Mrs. Meade’s husband looked after the farm for Mrs. Webb, her possession of the land now in controversy was consistent with, and not adverse to, the true title. In our opinion the defendants are in no better position in this respect than was their grantor.
Mr. Raleigh Minor, in his work on Real Property,…
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