Crouch v. Puryear
Supreme Court of Virginia
John G. Crouch filed a hill of injunction in the Richmond chancery court, against Puryear and his wife, McRae and Dorrington, praying that they may be in-joined from working any new coal-pit opened since the death of John Ellis, and from removing the coal that has been raised from the said new pit. The case stated by the bill is this : John Ellis died intestate, leaving a widow and three children.
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John G. Crouch filed a hill of injunction in the Richmond chancery court, against Puryear and his wife, McRae and Dorrington, praying that they may be in-joined from working any new coal-pit opened since the death of John Ellis, and from removing the coal that has been raised from the said new pit. The case stated by the bill is this : John Ellis died intestate, leaving a widow and three children. At the time of his death, he was seised of about 234 acres of land in Henrico county. Upon the assignment of the widow’s dower, the portion of land which was allotted to her, contained a mine of…
1Opinion of the Court
December 19.
Judge Brooke,
delivered the opinion of the court, that the decree should be affirmed.*
Judge Green did not sit in this cause.
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