Lohrs v. Millers' lessee
Supreme Court of Virginia
This was an action of ejectment in the Circuit court of Barbour county, by the lessee of Martin Miller and others against Peter and Peter P. Lohr. The case is stated by Judge Samuels in Ms opinion. There was a verdict and judgment for the plaintiffs; whereupon the defendants obtained a supersedeas from this court.
1Opinion of the CourtSamuels, J.
This cause is brought here by writ of error to a judgment for the plaintiff below, in an action of ejectment, in which John Doe, on the joint and several demises of Martin Miller and others, was plaintiff, and Peter Lohr and Peter P. Lohr were defendants. The parties, by consent entered of record, waived the right to have a jury, and thereupon the whole matters of law and fact were heard and deter*453mined, and judgment given by the court. Code, ch. 162, § 9, p. 629.
The plaintiff, to prove his title, gave in evidence a patent from the commonwealth to Levi Miller, the ancestor of plaintiff’s…
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