Hurst v. Dulany
Supreme Court of Virginia
Error to judgment of circuit court of Northumberland county, rendered April 28th, 1887, in an action of unlawful detainer, wherein R,. H. Hulany (the defendant in error) was plaintiff, and Thomas B. Hurst (the plaintiff in error) was defendant.
1Opinion of the CourtLacy, J.
This was an action of unlawful detainer by Dulany, the defendant in error, against Hurst, the plaintiff in error, for a section of oyster bottom in Northumberland county on the west shore of the Chesapeake bay. Dulany being the owner of a farm called “Bluff'Point,” in said county, and lying on,the said bay, had rented the same to one Snowden Hall, who has been the occupier of the same for fifte’en years. Hnder the sixth section of the act for the preservation of oysters (chapter 254, Acts 1883-84), Hall had procured from the inspector an allotment of nine hundred yards, while the defendant,…
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