Hunter v. Hume
Supreme Court of Virginia
Argued at Richmond. Decided at Wytheville. Error to judgment of circuit court of Alexandria county, rendered May 10th, 1890, in an action of ejectment instituted by the plaiirtiff in error, Hunter, against the defendant in error, Hume, to recover a parcel of land lying between the parallel lines of the Alexandria canal on the west and the Alexandria and Washington turnpike on the east.
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Argued at Richmond. Decided at Wytheville. Error to judgment of circuit court of Alexandria county, rendered May 10th, 1890, in an action of ejectment instituted by the plaiirtiff in error, Hunter, against the defendant in error, Hume, to recover a parcel of land lying between the parallel lines of the Alexandria canal on the west and the Alexandria and Washington turnpike on the east. By trust deed of October 4th, 1871, the plaintiff in error, Hunter, conveyed a part of his Abingdon plantation to a trustee, one Wattles, to secure a debt due to W. D. Mitchell. Wattles sold, under this deed,…
1Opinion of the CourtLacy, J.
(after stating the case), delivered the opinion of the court.
The general description in the deed in question is that the land conveyed is situated in Alexandria county, contains 280 acres, more or less, on the west side of the Washington and Alexandria turnpike. The turnpike is not stated there or elsewhere in the deed -to be a boundary, but this inference is excluded by setting forth as one of the boundaries the Alexandria canal, which runs between the body of the land granted and the turnpike throughout its whole extent.
The only difficulty in the question of boundary grows out of the…
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