Hodgson v. Perkins
Supreme Court of Virginia
Appeal from decree of circuit court of Fluvanna county, entered April 14th, 1887, dismissing the petition filed by ’William B. Hodgson, trustee, in the suit pending in said court under the styl/ of Perkins’ executor and others against Bowles and othej^PSaid Hodgson obtained an appeal and supersedeas to this'fiourt.
1Opinion of the CourtFauntleroy, J.
The facts material to he stated appear from a transcript of so much of the record in said suit as is necessary to a determination of the matters of error assigned in the petition for this appeal.
*707X). W. K. Bowles was the owner and occupier of a large farm in the counties of Fluvanna and Goochland, upon which he believed, as it was generally believed, that there were valuable minerals. He was not, however, a miner, but simply a practical farmer. He desired that his said land should be explored and worked for such minerals; he, therefore, on the 7th day of August, 1834, entered into an agreement…
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