Swann v. Washington-Southern Railway Co.
Supreme Court of Virginia
Error to a judgment of the Circuit Court of Alexandria county in a proceeding to condemn an easement in land. Judgment for the petitioner. Defendants assign error.
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Error to a judgment of the Circuit Court of Alexandria county in a proceeding to condemn an easement in land. Judgment for the petitioner. Defendants assign error. The nature of the property sought to be condemned will fully appear from the following extract from the petition for condemnation filed in the trial court: “That Sarah S. Swann and Mary M. Swann own a small body of land at the northeast corner of petitioner’s land bounded on the north by Eour Mile Eun, on the east by the Potomac river, and on the south and west by the body of land belonging to your petitioner and acquired by it as…
1Opinion of the CourtWhittle, J.
Sarah S. Swann and Mary M. Swann bring this case here on writ of error to review the judgment of the Circuit Oourt of Alexandria county, whereby certain easements of rights of way belonging to the plaintiffs in error over the land of the defendant in error, the Washington-Southern Railway Company, were condemned for the use of the company.
The assignments of error are, for the most part, of a character to be affected by extraneous evidence, and not having been made the subject of exception, or bill of exception, in the trial court, cannot, upon familiar principles, be availed of on appeal.…
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- Lewis v. WashingtonSupreme Court of Virginia · 1848
- Williamson v. ReadSupreme Court of Virginia · 1907
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