Miller v. Marshall

*44At the District Court of Winchester, in October, 1807, John Miller filed a suggestion in writing in these words: “Virginia, district of Winchester, to wit, be it remembered, that on the --day of October, 1807, at a superior court continued and held for the district composed of the counties of Frederick, &c., before, &'c., comes John Miller by his counsel, and gives the said court to understand and be informed, that whereas all, and all manner of pleas and plaints, involving the title or bounds of lands, or the right or title to any freehold estates within the said commonwealth of Virginia,…