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4 Munf. 473

Rowletts v. Daniel

Supreme Court of Virginia

Decided November 2, 1815

Supreme Court of Virginia · decided 1815-11-02

AT the trial of an ejectment in the Superior Court of Dinwiddie county, in April 1812, the plaintiff, lessee of William Rowlett and Daniel Rowlett, offered in evidence a copy, certified in the usual form, by the clerk of Dinwiddie County Court, of a deed executed by Henry Daniel, sen. (who was, at the time oi executing the same, lawfully seised and possessefi of the premises in the declaration mentioned,) to Hen-1 ry Daniel, jun. (under whom the lessors of the plaintiff…

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Decided 1815-11-02

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Cited by 11 later decisions — most recently March 1927

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¶1the president pronounced the court’s opinion, “ that there is- no error in the several instructions given to the jury, as stated in the several bills of exceptions, except the last. The two deeds from Henry Daniel to Harlow Daniel, on which that instruction was given, the court is of opinion,- did not work a disseisin of the *483said Henry Daniel, whose possession was the possession of Lockey Rowlett, nor convert the possession of Henry Daniel into an adversary possession, so as to deprive the lessors of the plaintiff, who claim under the said Lockey Rowlett, of this action ; and that the said judgment is erroneous.”

¶2Judgment reversed ; verdict set aside ; and new trial directed, on which the last mentioned instruction is not to be given to the jury.

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