Hunter v. Hicks
Supreme Court of Virginia
Error to a judgment of the Circuit Court of the city of Norfolk in an action of ejectment. Judgment for the defendants. Plaintiffs assign error.
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Error to a judgment of the Circuit Court of the city of Norfolk in an action of ejectment. Judgment for the defendants. Plaintiffs assign error. The declaration was as follows: “Robert I. Hunter, Newtie E. Hunter and Louise E. Shanks complain of W. H. Hicks and the Calvert Mortgage and Deposit Company of Baltimore City, of a plea of trespass, for this, to-wit, that on the 2nd day of March, in the year 1871, one Isaac R. Hunter was seized and possessed of that certain tract, piece or parcel of land lying and being in the county of Norfolk, near the city of Norfolk, at the town of Huntersville,…
1Opinion of the Court
Keith, P.,
delivered the opinion of the court.
This is an action of ejectment brought by Eobert I. Hunter and others against W. H. Hicks and others to recover a tract of land lying in the county of Horfolk.
There was a demurrer to the declaration, which was sustained *623by the circuit court, and judgment entered for the defendants, and that judgment is before us upon a writ of error.
The decision of the case involves a construction of a deed which is copied into the declaration, to which the' defendants in the circuit court assigned six grounds of demurrer, designated as a, b, c, d, e and. f.…
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