Oney v. West Buena Vista Land Co.
Supreme Court of Virginia
Appeal from a decree in chancery of the Circuit Court of Rockbridge county. Decree for defendants. Complainants appeal. The opinion states the case.
1Opinion of the CourtOahdwell, J.
During what is now commonly spoken of as the “boom” period, the West Buena Vista Land Company, the owner of a tract of several hundred acres of land lying just across North river, from, and west of, Buena Vista, a town then rapidly growing in population, and which afterwards became a city, desiring to enhance the value of its property and make sale of its land in town lots for building purposes, etc., laid the same off into lots, blocks, streets, alleys, jiarks and other public places, and on the 23rd day of September, 1890, placed a map or plat of said land, so divided, upon record in the…
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