High's Heirs v. Pancake
West Virginia Supreme Court
cited 23 Gratt. 504. cited 14 W. Ya. 561; 28 W. Ya. 35; 35 W. Ya. 560; 36 W. Ya. 451; Code, c. 130, s. 5a; 1 Q-reenl. Ev. § 498.
1Opinion of the Court
Brannon, Judge:
Harriet Higb and others instituted an action of trespass quare clausum fregit against Joseph A. Pancake to recover damages for cutting timber and taking tan bark from a tract of land claimed by plaintiffs; and the court having excluded the plaintiffs’ evidence as insufficient to support the action, the plaintiffs obtained this writ of error.
Hnder the pleadings, it fell upon the plaintiffs to show their title to the land. They claim as the fountain of their title a patent from the state of Yirginia, in 1801, to Hugh Holmes, for three thousand and five hundred and fifty acres on…
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