Jones v. Temple
Supreme Court of Virginia
Error to judgment of circuit court of Brunswick county, rendered October 16th, 1889, in an action of ejectment wherein the defendant in error, Wm. H. Temple, Jr., was plaintiff, and James W. Jones, the plaintiff in error, was defendant. Opinion states the case.
1Opinion of the CourtLacy, J.
In March, 1889, the defendant in error filed his declaration in ejectment against the plaintiff in error, for the recovery of the possession of a certain tract of land in Brunswick county. At the term of the court following the defendant pleaded not guilty; at the trial of the case, after the plaintiff had introduced a deed to the said tract of land, executed to him by one Robert H. Jones on the 10th day of October, 1888, duly recorded, the defendant offered to prove “that about eighteen years ago he entered into a certain parol agreement with the *211said Robert H. Jones, wherein the said Robert…
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