Hodgkin v. McVeigh

Citations

• 86 Va. 751
• 10 S.E. 1065
• 1890 Va. LEXIS 40

Syllabus

<p>1. Adversary possession—Landlord and tenant.—Party residing with tenant and helping to pay the rent, thereby admits landlord’s title, and can acquire no right to the premises by adverse possession against the land- ' lord.</p> <p>2. Confiscation sale—Claimant under purchaser at.—Such party claimed said premises under a purchaser thereof in confiscation proceedings against the owner, who afterwards received the premises from said purchaser in ejectment: held, purchaser having no title could confer none to the premises.</p>