Reusens v. Lawson
Supreme Court of Virginia
"Writ of error to a judgment of the Circuit Court of Patrick county, rendered March 24, 1893, in an action of ejectment wherein the plaintiff in error was the plaintiff and the defendants in error were the defendants.
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"Writ of error to a judgment of the Circuit Court of Patrick county, rendered March 24, 1893, in an action of ejectment wherein the plaintiff in error was the plaintiff and the defendants in error were the defendants. This was an action of ejectment instituted in the Circuit Court of Patrick-county by G-. Eeusens against John C. Lawson and Joe Haden, to recover possession of a tract of two hundred and six acres of land, situate in said county, and de- ' scribed in the declaration by metes and bounds, courses and distances. The landlords of John O. Lawson were, on their motion, admitted…
1Opinion of the Court
Buchanan, J.:
This is a writ of error to a judgment of the Circuit Court of Patrick county in an action of ejectment in which the plaintiff in error was the plaintiff in that court.
Upon the trial of the cause, numerous questions were raised, and five bills of exceptions were taken by the plaintiff, all of which are made grounds of assignment of error here.
The plaintiff, in making out his claim of title, had placed in evidence a grant from the Commonwealth for 70,000 acres of land to Gen. Henry Lee, assignee of John Miller, for whom the land had been surveyed on the 14th day of April, 1795. In…
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