Virginia & West Virginia Coal Co. v. Charles
District Court, W.D. Virginia
At Law. Ejectment by the Virginia & West Virginia Coal Company against Green Charles. On November 16, 1795, the commonwealth of Virginia granted to Richard Smyth and Henry Banks a tract of land, described as containing 200,000 acres, located then in Russell county, later in Tazewell county, and since 1858 in Buchanan county. On October 23, 1820, Wmi.
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At Law. Ejectment by the Virginia & West Virginia Coal Company against Green Charles. On November 16, 1795, the commonwealth of Virginia granted to Richard Smyth and Henry Banks a tract of land, described as containing 200,000 acres, located then in Russell county, later in Tazewell county, and since 1858 in Buchanan county. On October 23, 1820, Wmi. D. Taylor, “designated collector” of the federal direct tax of 1816 (3 Stats, at Large, 255, e. 24), sold this tract of land on account of nonpayment of said tax to Wm. Lamb, and on November 3, 1823, executed the following deed (Plaintiff’s…
1Opinion of the CourtMcDOWELE, District Judge
(after stating the facts as above). This action of ejectment, which by agreement involves only one of several tracts of land claimed by the defendant, is a branch of an *100action brought by the plaintiff against Fairmount-Buchanan Company and some 1250 other, defendants; and the main action is one of 17 similar actions of ejectment brought in this court at or about the same time by the same plaintiff against some hundred and seventy odd additional defendants. The trial of the case was by stipulation held before the court without a jury. Chiefly because of the short time allowed for the trial, by…
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