Holston Salt & Plaster Co. v. Campbell
Supreme Court of Virginia
Argued at Wytheville. Decided at Richmond. Error to judgment of circuit court of Smyth county, at March term, 1891, in an action of ejectment wherein James C. Campbell, trustee for Thomas L. Preston, et al., were plaintiffs, and the Holston Salt and Plaster Company was defendant. The judgment being adverse to defendant, it obtained a writ of error to this court. Opinion states the case.
1Opinion of the Court
Lewis, P.,
delivered the opinion of the court.
This was an action of ejectment to recover a tract of two hundred and twenty acres of land situate in Smyth county. The land, in controversy, together with the Preston Salt Works and various other tracts of land, situate in Smyth and other counties, and indeed his whole estate, real and personal, was conveyed, on the 7th of July, 1859, by Thomas L. Preston to-Robert. Gibboney, in trust for the payment of debts. In the deed of trust the salt works property is described as “ that tract or parcel of land, lying in Smyth county, on the waters of the…
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