Lusk v. Pelter & Co.
Supreme Court of Virginia
Appeal from two decees of the Circuit Court of Augusta county, pronounced’January 11, 1901, and December -27, 1.901, respectively, in a suit in chancery wherein the appellants were the complainants and the appellees were the defendants.
1Opinion of the CourtWhittle, J.
At the May term, 1894, of the Circuit Conrt of Augusta county, appellants filed a hill in equity against appellees, in which they allege that their ancestor, William Lusk, late of Rockbridge county, died seized and possessed of the property in controversy, consisting of ten acres of land situated in the county of Augusta, on the head waters of South river, near Vesuvius, known as the “Black Rock Iron Ore Mine,” also called “William Moore’s OÍd Ore Bank.”
It is further alleged that the defendants, John Echols, IT. M. Bell, and R. El. Catlett, had taken possession of the land under claim of…
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