Legal Opinion

Holloran v. Meisel

Supreme Court of Virginia

Decided January 29, 1891PublishedCited by 8 opinions

Error to judgment of circuit court of city of Richmond, rendered September 6th, 1888, in an action of ejectment, wherein James Holloran, the plaintiff in error, was plaintiff, and Philip Meisel, Sr., and Philip Meisel, Jr., were defendants. Opinion states the case.

1Opinion of the CourtFauntleroy, J.

The record discloses that James Holloran, the plaintiff in error, obtained from the Commonwealth of Virginia a grant for a tract of land lying in the county of Henrico, near the city of Richmond, containing three and eighty-four one hundredth acres, on the 12th day of February, ] 887; that the said grant was obtained after the said James Holloran had had the said land surveyed, and he had complied fully with all the requirements of the law; that the said land was and had been on the commons and waste and unappropriated up to three or four years before the rendition of the said judgment, and…

2Cases cited1 opinion

  1. Green v. LiterSupreme Court of the United States · 1814

3Cited by8 opinions

  1. Board of Education v. MakelySupreme Court of North Carolina · 1905
  2. Tapscott v. CobbsSupreme Court of Virginia · 1854
  3. Cochran v. ParisSupreme Court of Virginia · 1854
  4. Holleran v. MeiselSupreme Court of Virginia · 1895
  5. Hudgins v. SimonSupreme Court of Virginia · 1897

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