Jennings v. Gravely
Supreme Court of Virginia
Error to a judgment of the Circuit Court of the city of Danville, rendered January 18, 1893, in an action of ejectment, wherein the defendants in error were the plaintiffs, and the plaintiff in error was the defendant.
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Error to a judgment of the Circuit Court of the city of Danville, rendered January 18, 1893, in an action of ejectment, wherein the defendants in error were the plaintiffs, and the plaintiff in error was the defendant. After the plaintiffs had shown that they held the legal title to the land in controversy, with the immediate right of possession, the defendant proved the notice given to the plaintiffs of his intention to rely on an equitable defence under the statute, and then ££ introduced A. G. Walters, one of the commissioners who sold the land in the suit of A. G. Walters, Guardian, &c.…
1Opinion of the Court
Keith, P.,
delivered the opinion of the court.
The defendants in error, Mary F. Gravely and P. B. Gravely, her husband, brought an action of ejectment for the recovery of a certain tract of land described in the declaration. The defendant, Jennings, the plaintiff in error here, pleaded not guilty, and gave notice in writing, as provided by statute, ten days before the trial, that he would rely, among other things, for defence “ on the fact that the property sued for was sold under a decree of the County Court of Pittsylvania county, in the chancery cause of A. G. Walters, Guardian, &c. v. Nancy…
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