Legal Opinion

Cheatham v. Taylor

Supreme Court of Virginia

Decided June 16, 1927PublishedCited by 34 opinions

1Opinion of the Court

Bubks, L,

delivered the opinion of the court.

Upon a petition for appeal.

This is an application for an appeal from a decree of the Circuit Court of the city of Lynchburg. We do not generally deliver opinions on such applications, but it is sometimes done in exceptional eases. McCue v. Commonwealth, 103 Va. 870, 49 S. E. 623; Allen v. Commonwealth, 114 Va. 826, 77 S. E. 66; Jones v. Kirby, 146 Va. 109, 135 S. E. 676. We have been urged to do it in the instant case because of the supposed novelty of the main question involved.

In 1890 the Rivermont Company became the owner of a boundary of two…

2Cases cited16 opinions

  1. Werner v. GrahamCalifornia Supreme Court · 1919
  2. Hodge v. . SloanNew York Court of Appeals · 1887
  3. McCue v. CommonwealthSupreme Court of Virginia · 1905
  4. First National Bank v. William R. Trigg Co.Supreme Court of Virginia · 1907
  5. Hano v. BigelowMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1892

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3Cited by34 opinions

  1. Harlow v. CommonwealthSupreme Court of Virginia · 1953
  2. Horace Case v. Arthur E. MorrisetteCourt of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit · 1973
  3. Minner v. City of LynchburgSupreme Court of Virginia · 1963
  4. Mid-State Equipment Co. v. BellSupreme Court of Virginia · 1976
  5. Deitrick v. LeadbetterSupreme Court of Virginia · 1940

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