Pollard's heirs v. Lively
Supreme Court of Virginia
This is the sequel of the case of Pollard ’s heirs v. Lively, reported 2 Gratt. R. 216. On the trial of the cause in the Court below, the jury again found a verdict for the tenant, on which the Court entered up a judgment; and the demandants having taken three several bills of exception to opinions of the Court pronounced during the progress of the trial, applied to this Court for a supersedeas to the judgment, which was allowed.
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This is the sequel of the case of Pollard ’s heirs v. Lively, reported 2 Gratt. R. 216. On the trial of the cause in the Court below, the jury again found a verdict for the tenant, on which the Court entered up a judgment; and the demandants having taken three several bills of exception to opinions of the Court pronounced during the progress of the trial, applied to this Court for a supersedeas to the judgment, which was allowed. The facts of the case are stated in the opinion of the Court.
1Opinion of the CourtBaldwin, J.
It appears to the Court, that upon the trial of the cause, after the tenant had offered his evidence in chief, *74the demandants gave in evidence a copy of a grant from the Commonwealth to Benjamin Pollard, assignee of Henry Banks, dated the 22d of April 1788, for 2500 acres of land on Bradshaw’s run in Greenbrier county, ky survey bearing date the 8th of March 1786; and by virtue and in consideration of part of two land office treasury warrants, one of them numbered 21,563, and dated the 23d of December 1783. That the demandants also introduced evidence tending to prove that they were the heirs…
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