Va. Mining & I. Co. v. Hoover
Supreme Court of Virginia
Error to judgment of circuit court of Augusta county, rendered November 2, 1883, in an action of ejectment wherein the Virginia Mining and Improvement Company was plaintiff, and A. Hoover was defendant. The judgment being for the defendant, the company, on the bill of exceptions taken on the trial, obtained a writ of error and supersedeas.
1Opinion of the CourtLacy, J.
The plaintiff is^ the holder of the legal title derived by an unbroken chain from Levi Hollingsworth, patentee of the Commonwealth, in the patent of September 17, 1795, for forty thousand and ninety-six acres. The action is against the defendant, who claims under a tax sale of a part of the Hollingsworth patent.
The deed of the tax collector is offered and admitted solely to show color of title in the grantor of the defendant, and is not asserted as evidence of title on account of want of regularity.
The defence is the statute of limitations and adversary possession.
The facts are that defendant…
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