Lynchburg Cotton Mills v. Rives

This is an action of ejectment brought by Mrs. E. G. Rives against the Lynchburg Cotton Mill Company, to recover one and one-half acres of land located in Campbell county near the city of Lynchburg between what are known in the record as “Carroll avenue” and the “Edley Line.”

From the viewpoint of a demurrer to the evidence, the following are the material facts: J. H. Rives, who was the plaintiff’s husband, owned the “Edley tract,” and the plain*139tiff owned adjoining land called the “Crawford tract.” By-deed dated January 6, 1890, J. H. Rives and wife conveyed the “Edley tract” to Wilson,…