Carroll v. Norwood
General Court of Virginia
Ejectmeht for a tract, of land called Fates his Forbearance, lying in Baltimore county. The declaration contained seven separate demises, viz. from Charles Carroll, of Carrollton, for one fifth, Nicholas Carroll, one fifth, Daniel Carroll, of Haddington, one fifth, Robert Carter, one fifth, Abraham, Van Bibber, one tenth. Isaac Van Bibber, one fiftieth, and William Smij¡ four fiftieths.
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Ejectmeht for a tract, of land called Fates his Forbearance, lying in Baltimore county. The declaration contained seven separate demises, viz. from Charles Carroll, of Carrollton, for one fifth, Nicholas Carroll, one fifth, Daniel Carroll, of Haddington, one fifth, Robert Carter, one fifth, Abraham, Van Bibber, one tenth. Isaac Van Bibber, one fiftieth, and William Smij¡ four fiftieths. The defendants took defence rant for all the lands within the lines of ^le^Mited Friendship, as located in two ways by the \urv(wpr. as the pretensions of the defendants, on the/pUfts’Yi turned in the cause.…
1Opinion of the Court
Chase, Ch. J.
The Court are of opinion, that if the jury find the facts stated by the plaintiff, and that Daniel Dulany and Company have been in possession *186of the land described in the deed from Robert Chapman to Daniel Dulany and Company, from the date of the deed to within seven years last past, that then the copy of the deed from John Yate to Robert Chapman, with the said facts, are sufficient evidence to induce the jury to presume and find a deed from John Yate to Robert Chapman, for the land described in the deed from Robert Chapman to Daniel Dulany and Company.
Ajudgment entered on a…
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