¶1pi’onounced the Court’s opinion; that the Verdict in this case is too uncertain to warrant a judgment for the appellee;-in this, that it does not suffici*27ently designate the boundaries of the 400 acres of land, which they find lor him, nor refer to any certain standard by which that defect may be supplied. The Judgment is therefore to be reversed, and a venire de novo awarded.
6 Va. 25
Gregory v. Jacksons
Decided November 8, 1817
Supreme Court of Virginia · decided 1817-11-08
1N Ejectmeiit, the declaration was, for ten Messuages, twenty cottages, one thousand acres of wood-laud, one thousand acres of arabic land, OIIC thousand acres of meadow and one thousand acres of pasture, lying aiid being in the County of Meck- lenburg, without setting forth any boundaries.The verdict was, We of the Jury find for the plaintiff his term yet to come in four hundred acres of land parccl of the premises in the declaration mentioned, and: in the possession of the…
Decided 1817-11-08