Elk Garden Co. v. T. W. Thayer Co.
District Court, W.D. Virginia
At Law. Action by the Elk Garden Company against the T. W. Thayer Company. On objections by plaintiff to filing of pleas of res judicata.
1Opinion of the Court
McDOWELL, District Judge.
This is an action of ejectment, instituted in 1910, for a tract of land in this district which is alleged in the declaration to have been conveyed to the plaintiff by the Douglas Land Company on November 29, 1909. The defendant has filed a disclaimer as to all of the land described in the declaration except as to a certain parcel thereof, which it is admitted is the same parcel that was in controversy in the litigation to be hereinafter mentioned. The defendant has also tendered two pleas of res judicata, to the filing of which the plaintiff objects. The first plea is…
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