Johnston v. Slater
Supreme Court of Virginia
This was an aetion of ejectment in the Circuit court of Ohio county, in which the lessees of James C. Johnston and Sophia his wife were plaintiffs, and Thomas Slater and John T. Churchill were defendants. The facts are stated by Judge Samuels in his opinion. The parties dispensed with a jury, and submitted the case to the decision of the court. There was a judgment for the defendants; from which the plaintiffs obtained a supersedeas to this court.
1Opinion of the CourtSamuels, J.
This cause is brought here by supersedeas to a judgment of the Circuit court of Ohio county, in favor of the defendants, in an action of ejectment, in which the plaintiffs counted on a joint demise by James C. Johnston and Sophia his wife, and on a separate demise by James C. Johnston: Slater and Churchill, on their motion, were admitted defendants.
The plaintiff and defendants respectively relied upon titles to the property in controversy, derived from *322Hampden Zane; and the case before the court must be decided by a comparison of those titles. That of the plaintiff is under a deed from Zane,…
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