Mills v. Edgell
West Virginia Supreme Court
Error to Circuit Court, Wetzel County. Action by John Mills against James A. Edgell. Judgment for defendant, and plaintiff brings error.
1Opinion of the Court
POEEEOT3ARGER, JUDGE:
Withdrawal of this ease from the consideration of the jury by a peremptory instruction to find for the defendant constitutes the basis of all the errors assigned.
It is an action of ejectment for the recovery of 35 acres of land, lying within the boundaries of a 9,000 acre grant, according to the claims of the plaintiff, but wholly or partially outside .thereof, under the defendant’s interpretation of the evidence. Though the evidence set forth in some hundreds of pages of the printed record, pertains to locations, boundary lines and possession, these are by no means the…
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