Mason v. Tuttle
Supreme Court of Virginia
TMs was an action of ejectment in tlie circuit court of Fairfax county, brought by Fanny T. Mason and others, heirs of Murray Mason, deceased, against Adelaide Tuttle and others, to recover a tract of land in said county which had been sold under confiscation proceedings against Murray Mason during the late war, and bought by Adelaide Tuttle, to whom it was conveyed by the marshal of the district court of the United States.
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TMs was an action of ejectment in tlie circuit court of Fairfax county, brought by Fanny T. Mason and others, heirs of Murray Mason, deceased, against Adelaide Tuttle and others, to recover a tract of land in said county which had been sold under confiscation proceedings against Murray Mason during the late war, and bought by Adelaide Tuttle, to whom it was conveyed by the marshal of the district court of the United States. On the trial a jury was named, and the case submitted to the court, and there-was a judgment in favor of the defendant. And thereupon the plaintiff applied to this court…
1Opinion of the CourtAnderson, J.
The land in controversy, of which Murray Mason, the ancestor of plaintiffs, was owner, was sold under a decree of confiscation of the United States district court for Virginia, at which sale Adelaide M. Tuttle became the purchaser, at the price of $750, which she paid; and a deed of conveyance was made to her by the marshal of said court. It was afterwards sold, in the execution of a judgment upon an attachment, at the suit of Botsf ord Camp, by the sheriff of Fairfax county, for the sum of $900; and was purchased at said sale by the said Adelaide Tuttle; and was conveyed to her by said…
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