Slocum v. Compton
Supreme Court of Virginia
Error to judgments of the Circuit Court of Buchanan county, rendered June 2, 1894, and February 27, 1895, in an action of ejectment wherein the plaintiff in error was the plaintiff, and the defendant in error was the defendant.
1Opinion of the CourtBuchanan, J.
The plaintiff brought an action of ejectment in the Circuit Court of Buchanan county to recover two tracts of land, one containing 1,400, and the other 1,600, acres. Upon the trial of the cause there was a verdict for the plaintiff in the following words: “We, the jury, find for the plaintiff the land in controversy in an estate in fee simple, except the land the defendant has fenced up, and the land conveyed to the defendant by B. W. Compton and Mary A., his wife." Upon motion of the defendant the verdict was set aside, and a new trial awarded.
Upon the second trial the defendant, without…
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