Hough v. Shreeve
Supreme Court of Virginia
IjST August, 1811, the appellant filed a bill, in the supe-ior court of chancery for the Richmond district, against Benjamin Shreeve and Landon Carter, surviving executor . . of George Carter, praying an injunction to a judgment in an ac(aon trespass on the case brought by Shreeve, in the Haymarlset district court, against the complainant for overflowing, with a mill pond, certain land which he claimed as his and to all future actions for the same cause; and, that • ... the…
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IjST August, 1811, the appellant filed a bill, in the supe-ior court of chancery for the Richmond district, against Benjamin Shreeve and Landon Carter, surviving executor . . of George Carter, praying an injunction to a judgment in an ac(aon trespass on the case brought by Shreeve, in the Haymarlset district court, against the complainant for overflowing, with a mill pond, certain land which he claimed as his and to all future actions for the same cause; and, that • ... the said Shreeve might be compelled to convey to the comPlainant tlle overflowed land in controversy. The injunction was…
1Opinion of the Court
The president pronounced the court’s opinion, as follows:
The court (not deciding, at present, on the merits of the cause) is of opinion, that, as the bill of the appellant had a double, or twofold object, first to injoin the appellee Benjamin Shreeve, I'rom harassing him with vexatious actions of trespass; and, secondly, to obtain a decree for the overflowed land in controversy, the cause is not within the intent or meaning of the third section of the act of the 20th of Januaiy 1804.
Decree reversed, and the cause remanded to the court of chancery, there to be re-docketed, for farther…
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