Bond v. Willis
Supreme Court of Virginia
Error to judgment of circuit, ¡court of Orange county, rendered May 4th, 1885, in an action of trespass on the case wherein John Willis, Jr., was plaintiff, and Thomas W. Bond was defendant. The judgment of the court (a jury being waived) was against the defendant, who excepted thereto, and the court certified all the evidence. To this judgment the defendant obtained a writ of error.
1Opinion of the CourtLacy, J.
This was an action of trespass on the case for obstructing *797the plaintiff’s right of way through the land of the defendant. At the first trial of the ease, the jury, having failed to agree, were discharged; and at the next trial a jury was waived by both sides, and matters of both law and fact submitted to the court; whereupon there was a judgment for the plaintiff, and, the evidence being certified, the case was brought here by writ of error. It will be considered here as upon a demurrer to evidence. The case is as follows: John Willis and wife conveyed to John Willis, Jr., their son, in…
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