Johnson v. Brown
Court of Appeals of Virginia
This was an appeal from a decree of the High Court of Chancery. The hill states, that, on the 20th of November, 1749, William Davies, lor his father Jloberl Dames, entered with Thomas Lewis, Surveyor of Augusta county, for 300 acres of land between his father’s land and the widow Bell's.
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This was an appeal from a decree of the High Court of Chancery. The hill states, that, on the 20th of November, 1749, William Davies, lor his father Jloberl Dames, entered with Thomas Lewis, Surveyor of Augusta county, for 300 acres of land between his father’s land and the widow Bell's. That on the 29th of August, 1753, Robert Davies sold the entry to J. Phillips; from whose son and heir, the plaintiff purchased it on the 23d of May, 1789. And on the 12th of October, 1789, William Davies also assigned it to the plaint,iff, for the consideration of 41. 10.s. That the entry being surveyed, and…
1Opinion of the Court
PENDLETON, President,
(after observing that as all the Judges who sat in the cause were unanimous; those present thought there would be no impropriety in proceeding to judgment in the absence of Judge Roane,) delivered the resolution of the Court as follows:
Upon the 20th of November, 1749, William Davies entered with the Surveyor of Jlugusia county, for 300 acres of land, between Robert Davies’s land, and the land of the widow Bell. It, is stated, that Phillips purchased die entry of Robert Davies in 1753, and sold it to John *232son in 1789. Of this, however, no proof is exhibited; but let it for…
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