Woody v. Abrams

Designating the parties as they stood in the trial court, plaintiffs and defendant are coterminous owners of lands in King William county.

This is a statutory proceeding, Code, section 5490, brought to ascertain and fix their division line. That line originally ran with Manquin creek, and still runs with it unless the course of the creek itself has changed.

Plaintiffs hold by inheritance from their father, J. M. Abrams, Sr., who took title by deed from R. V. Florence, special commissioner, appointed in the cause of Ida B. Blake et al. v. Mary E. Lincoln et al., lately pending in the Circuit…