Chesapeake & Ohio Railway Co. v. Walker
Supreme Court of Virginia
Appeal from a decree of the Circuit- Court of the city of Lynchburg, pronounced September 21, 1900, in a suit in chancery, wherein the appellant was the complainant, and the appellees were the defendants.
1Opinion of the Court
Keith, P.,
delivered the opinion of the court.
It appears from the bill of the Chesapeake and Ohio Kail way Company that Samuel Miller, under whom all parties to this litigation claim-, was seised of two parcels of land near the city of Lynchburg, which were devised to him by the will of his brother, John Miller;
These lots were bounded on the south by Lynch street, and on the north by low water mark of James river. In the year 1836, the James Kiver and Kanawha Canal Company instituted proceedings in the Circuit Court of Campbell co-unty to condemn a right of way through these lots, and a survey…
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