Stearns v. Harman
Supreme Court of Virginia
Argued at "Wytheville, but decided at Richmond. Appeal fi’om decrees of circuit court of Bland county, entered November 4th, 1883, and May 5th, 1884, respectively, in the chancery cause therein pending, wherein Franklin Stearns was complainant and A. Q. Harman was defendant.
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Argued at "Wytheville, but decided at Richmond. Appeal fi’om decrees of circuit court of Bland county, entered November 4th, 1883, and May 5th, 1884, respectively, in the chancery cause therein pending, wherein Franklin Stearns was complainant and A. Q. Harman was defendant. The object of the suit was to annul a grant dated May 1st, 1880, from the Commonwealth to Harman for 371 acres of land, to which the latter asserted claim, but of which he had not actual possession, on the ground that the said 371 acres were embraced within a tract of 75,000 acres, which had, in 1795, been granted to…
1Opinion of the CourtRichardson, J.
In July, 1883, Franklin Steams exhibited his bill against A. Q. Ilarman in the circuit court of Bland county, setting forth that said plaintiff, Stearns, is the owner in fee of what is commonly known as the “Phineas Thurston big survey lands,” lying in the counties of Wythe, Bland, Hiles and Pulaski, and part of a survey of 75,000 acres granted to Robert [Morris, of the city of Philadelphia-, assignee of Robert Pollard, which grant bears date 19th March, 1795.
To show the derivation of his title, the plaintiff exhibits with and as part of his hill—
1. A grant from the Commonwealth of Virginia…
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