Bolling v. Teel
Supreme Court of Virginia
Writ of error to judgment of circuit court of Floyd county in suit of John L. Teel and other heirs of Amelia Teel, deceased, against Henry Bolling, to recover three hundred and eighty-two acres of land in Floyd. Amelia Teel was a daughter of John Ferguson, deceased, in the partition of whose real estate in 1823, this tract was assigned by the commissioners to her husband, “ Mankin Teel, as legatee.”
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Writ of error to judgment of circuit court of Floyd county in suit of John L. Teel and other heirs of Amelia Teel, deceased, against Henry Bolling, to recover three hundred and eighty-two acres of land in Floyd. Amelia Teel was a daughter of John Ferguson, deceased, in the partition of whose real estate in 1823, this tract was assigned by the commissioners to her husband, “ Mankin Teel, as legatee.” The defendant claimed by deed signed by Man-kin Teel and Amelia, his wife, to Jacob and John WHelms, in 1827. In the certificate of the privy examination of Mrs. Teel, the justices failed to state…
1Opinion of the CourtStaples, J.
This is an action of ejectment brought in the circuit court of Floyd county. The parties having dispensed with a jury, the whole matter of law and evidence was referred to the court.
Upon the trial it appeared that in the year 1823 a suit was instituted in the county court of Franklin for the purpose of partitioning the real estate of John Ferguson, deceased, among his heirs, of whom Amelia, the wife of Mankin Teel, was one. The commissioners, appointed by the court to make the partition, reported that “ they had allotted to Mankin Teel', legatee, a tract of 382 acres, lying in Montgomery…
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