Pasley v. English
Supreme Court of Virginia
This was an action of ejectment upon the demise of George, Elizabeth and Julia English against Solomon Pasley, originally instituted in the Circuit Court of Franklin, and from thence transferred to the Circuit Court of Roanoke.
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This was an action of ejectment upon the demise of George, Elizabeth and Julia English against Solomon Pasley, originally instituted in the Circuit Court of Franklin, and from thence transferred to the Circuit Court of Roanoke. Both parties derived title under William Mead, to whom a grant of five hundred acres of land was made by the Commonwealth in 1792; and the subject of controversy was a parcel of twenty-four acres of land lying between the lands admitted to belong to the parties respectively. On the trial of the cause, there was a verdict for the plaintiffs, and a motion for a new trial…
1Opinion of the CourtBaldwin, J.
It seems to me that the appellees have succeeded in obtaining a verdict and judgment for the land in controversy, without any sufficient evidence of title, or in lieu of it of a sufficient adversary possession by them and those under whom they claim.
It is not disputed between the parties that in the year 1792, a patent for 500 acres of land, embracing the 24 acres in controversy, was granted by the Commonwealth to Mead, under whom the appellant claims; and that Ryan, who asserted a right to the land so patented, in hostility to Mead, in the year 1797 conveyed 200 acres thereof, including the…
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