Buchanan Co. v. Heirs of Smith & Banks
Supreme Court of Virginia
Appeal from a decree of the Circuit Court of Washington county. Decree for the defendants. Complainant appeals.
1Opinion of the CourtWhittle, J.
This is a suit in 'equity by the appellant, the Buchanan Company, a non-resident corporation, against the appellees, the unknown heirs of the claimants under Richard Smyth and Henry Banks. The main object of the bill is to remove an alleged cloud on appellant’s title to 146,109% acres of land situated in Buchanan county.
On November 16, 1795, a tract of 200,000 acres of land, including the boundary in controversy, was patented to Richard Smyth and Henry Banks, and the bill charges that the excess of the original tract over the land in dispute was found to lie in the State of Kentucky.…
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