Coles v. Wooding
Court of Appeals of Virginia
On the 17th November, 1845, a writ of right issued from the Circuit Superior Court of Law for the county of Pittsyl-vania, in behalf of John Coles, against Thos. Wooding, for ten acres of land in the said county. On the death of Jno. Coles, the suit was revived in the name of his heirs, and at the May term of the court, 1848, the mise having been joined on the mere right, the jury found a verdict for the tenant.
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On the 17th November, 1845, a writ of right issued from the Circuit Superior Court of Law for the county of Pittsyl-vania, in behalf of John Coles, against Thos. Wooding, for ten acres of land in the said county. On the death of Jno. Coles, the suit was revived in the name of his heirs, and at the May term of the court, 1848, the mise having been joined on the mere right, the jury found a verdict for the tenant. The demandants moved for a new trial, which the court refused, and gave judgment' for the tenant. The demandants excepted to the opinion of the court ^over-ruling the motion for a new…
1Opinion of the CourtCbopton, J.
This was a writ of right between the appellants, as demandants, and the appellee, as tenant, in the Circuit Superior Court of Daw and Chancery for the county of Pitt-sylvania. They were owners of coterminous tracts of land, and the question in controversy between them is, which is the true dividing line between the tracts? Both tracts were formerly' parts of one entire tract, the property of Isaac Coles, who, by his will, devised it to his sons, John Coles and James Thompson Coles. The appellants are the heirs at law of John Coles, and the appellee claims under James Thompson Coles. On the…
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