Legal Opinion

Litterall v. Jackson

Supreme Court of Virginia

Decided June 25, 1885PublishedCited by 12 opinions

Appeal from decree of circuit court of Wythe county, entered 11th December, 1883, in a cause wherein George W. Lit-terall, the appellant here, was complainant, and George W. Jackson and als. were defendants. Opinion states the case.

1Opinion of the CourtRichardson, J.

*605This is a triangular contest in respect to the ownership of the land in controversy, it being so much of the 2058-acre survey granted by the commonwealth to I). B. Saunders, on the 1st day of February, 1851, as is east of the “Low-Gap” road in the county of Carroll. All of said 2058-acre survey is embraced within an older, larger survey, known as the Buston survey, containing 24-0,000 acres, and, at the time of the grant for said 2058 acres, owned by the "Wythe Union Lead Mines Company.

At the time of the emanation of the grant to D. B. Saunders for said 2058 acres, the Lead Mines Company had…

2Cases cited3 opinions

  1. Wright v. PucketSupreme Court of Virginia · 1872
  2. Clarke v. ReinsSupreme Court of Virginia · 1855
  3. Graham v. CallSupreme Court of Virginia · 1817

3Cited by12 opinions

  1. Peirce v. GrahamSupreme Court of Virginia · 1888
  2. Crawford v. WorkmanWest Virginia Supreme Court · 1908
  3. Catron v. BosticSupreme Court of Virginia · 1918
  4. Broaddus v. BroaddusCourt of Appeals of Virginia · 1925
  5. Edichal Bullion Co. v. Columbia Gold Mining Co.Supreme Court of Virginia · 1891

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