Clayton & Tyson v. Henley
Supreme Court of Virginia
This was a suit in equity in the circuit court of Carroll county, brought in January, 1874, by Thomas B. Henley against F. L. Hale and seven others, who, with A. V. Brown, deceased, constituted, as the bill stated, the Meigs County Tennessee and Virginia Mining Company, the unknown heirs of said A. V. Brown, and S. S. Clayton and J. E. Tyson. Hale lived in the county of Carroll, and all the other members of the company were residents of the state of Tennessee.
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This was a suit in equity in the circuit court of Carroll county, brought in January, 1874, by Thomas B. Henley against F. L. Hale and seven others, who, with A. V. Brown, deceased, constituted, as the bill stated, the Meigs County Tennessee and Virginia Mining Company, the unknown heirs of said A. V. Brown, and S. S. Clayton and J. E. Tyson. Hale lived in the county of Carroll, and all the other members of the company were residents of the state of Tennessee. The object of the suit was to subject a tract of land in the county of Carroll, and certain copper and mining interests in land in the…
1Opinion of the CourtStaples, J.
The court is of opinion that Robert L. Toncray, by his deed bearing date the 10th February, 1854, conveyed to John G. Stuart, president of the “Meigs County Mining Company,” and his successors in office, one-half of all the minerals, except the iron or», in and upon the tract of land now claimed by the appellants, and the interest so conveyed became afterwards vested in the persons composing the “Meigs County Tennessee and Virginia Mining Company”; and further that said deed, being duly recorded iu the proper county, constituted notice to all subsequent purchasers of the interests of the…
2Cited by7 opinions
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- McCartney v. TyrerSupreme Court of Virginia · 1897
- Stoneman v. CommonwealthSupreme Court of Virginia · 1874
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