Boggs v. Commonwealth
Supreme Court of Virginia
Error and supersedeas to judgments of circuit court of Matthews county, confirming judgments of county court of said county dismissing petitions filed in tlie county court by Joseph C. Boggs and William F. Waters, David R. Mister, Thomas R. Chandler, Thomas Johnson, Henry F. Powell, John R. L. Hopkins and William H. A. Hopkins, and O. E. Maltby in certain cases pending therein, and known as the “ Oyster cases.” Boggs and Waters owned the schooner “Mary Tauline.”
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Error and supersedeas to judgments of circuit court of Matthews county, confirming judgments of county court of said county dismissing petitions filed in tlie county court by Joseph C. Boggs and William F. Waters, David R. Mister, Thomas R. Chandler, Thomas Johnson, Henry F. Powell, John R. L. Hopkins and William H. A. Hopkins, and O. E. Maltby in certain cases pending therein, and known as the “ Oyster cases.” Boggs and Waters owned the schooner “Mary Tauline.” They sold this vessel to E. O. Kellam for $850, for which he executed his bond. The title to her was withheld until the whole of the…
1Opinion of the Court
Staples, J.,
delivei'ed the opinion of the court.
Indictmen ts were found in the county court of Matthews against certain parties for unlawfully and feloniously catching and taking oysters with dredges and for employing certain vessels in the commission of these offences. The accused were convicted and sentenced to confinement in the penitentiary.- At a subsequent term of the court an order was entered for the sale of the vessels, which, it was alleged, were forfeited to the Commonwealth.
At the same term the appellants filed their petitions severally, in which they stated they were the owners…
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