Grove v. Zumbro
Supreme Court of Virginia
This was a bill filed in the Circuit court of Augusta county, by Mary Zumbro against Henry Grove. The object of the suit was to recover the plaintiff’s share of a tract of land which had descended to her as one of the seven heirs at law of Isaac Moore.
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This was a bill filed in the Circuit court of Augusta county, by Mary Zumbro against Henry Grove. The object of the suit was to recover the plaintiff’s share of a tract of land which had descended to her as one of the seven heirs at law of Isaac Moore. The land had been sold to the defendant in 1833, and John Zumbro the husband of the plaintiff and herself, then living in the state of Tennessee, united in a deed bearing date the 14th day of October 1833, by which they conveyed their interest in the land to Henry Grove. This deed was acknowledged before the Rutherford Circuit court, and the…
1Opinion of the CourtMoncure, J.
This is a suit in equity brought by the appellee Mary Zumbro, against the appellant Henry Gi’ove, in the Circuit court of Augusta county, to have partition, and an allotment of her portion, being one-seventh, of the land in said county of which her father Isaac Moore died intestate, seized and possessed; and also to recover rents and profits. The appellant Grove claims the land by purchase from the heirs of said Moore; and especially claims the portion of said Mary Zumbro under a deed purporting to have been executed by her late husband John Zumbro and herself, bearing date the 14th day of…
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