Johnston v. Griswold
West Virginia Supreme Court
This was a supersedeas granted on the petition of the •defendants below, to a judgment of the circuit court of Greenbrier county, rendered on the 27th day of November, 1873, in a suit then pending in said circuit court, between Andrew D. Johnston and others plaintiffs, and Simeon Griswold and Cornelius Eodgers defendants. The other facts appear in the opinion of the Court. The Hon. Homer A. Holt, judge of said circuit court, presided at the trial below.
1Opinion of the Court
Pa till, Judge:
In. the year 1856, the plaintiffs brought their action of ejectment against the defendants, in the county of Greenbrier, to recover the possession of a tract of land containing about eighty-five acres. The defendants pleaded not guilty, and the plaintiffs replied generally. Subsequently the defendants filed a special plea, as far as the land in controversy is concerned, alleging that since the last continuance of this cause, to-wit, on the 4th day ■of February, 1871, the plaintiffs conveyed all their title in the premises in question to one James Jarrett, and this they are…
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