Trotter v. Newton
Supreme Court of Virginia
This case was decided in October, 1877, but there was a motion for a rehearing of the decree, which was overruled at this term of the court. It was a case of caveat in the circuit court of Augusta county, in which A. D. Trotter and others were the caveators, and Isaac Newton and Major D. Vines were the caveatees. The case was submitted to the decision of the judge, and he rendered a judgment for the caveatees.
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This case was decided in October, 1877, but there was a motion for a rehearing of the decree, which was overruled at this term of the court. It was a case of caveat in the circuit court of Augusta county, in which A. D. Trotter and others were the caveators, and Isaac Newton and Major D. Vines were the caveatees. The case was submitted to the decision of the judge, and he rendered a judgment for the caveatees. And the caveators having excepted, applied to a judge of this court for a supersedeas; which w-as awarded. The case is stated by Judge Christian.
1Opinion of the CourtChristian, J.
Statement of the Case.
This was a case of caveat in the circuit court of Augusta county. The caveators are the appellants, A. D. Trotter, *James I. A. Trotter, Thomas N. Kinney, and other heirs at law of Jefferson Kinney. On the 10th day of December, 1873, they filed in the office of the register of Virginia land office their caveat to prevent the issuing of a grant to the appellees, Isaac Newton and Major D. Vines, for forty-seven and one-half acres of land situated in said county of Augusta, on the water of Mary’s creek (now called Smith river), surveyed for said Newton and Vines on the 4th…
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