Grogg v. Stevens

ROSE, Circuit Judge.

The controversy before us concerns the distribution of part of the money paid into the court below by the United States as the ascertained value of some 8,500 acres of land in Highland and Augusta counties, Va., condemned for forest reserve purposes. For brevity, the plaintiffs in error will be referred to as Grogg, who was one of them. The defendants in error, who. claim in right of their ancestress, Eleanor Crary, will be styled the Crarys. Both sides derived their title from one Schermerhorn.

In the ’40’s of the last century, Sehermerhorn conveyed to John Crary an…