Halliday v. Miller
West Virginia Supreme Court
Statement of tbe case by GreeN, Judge : This was a bill filed at May rules, 1880, by John T. Halli-day against George S. Miller and Bartley F. Miller to set aside as voluntary and fraudulent two deeds executed by George S. Miller to bis son Bartleji F. Miller conveying to him two parcels of land.
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Statement of tbe case by GreeN, Judge : This was a bill filed at May rules, 1880, by John T. Halli-day against George S. Miller and Bartley F. Miller to set aside as voluntary and fraudulent two deeds executed by George S. Miller to bis son Bartleji F. Miller conveying to him two parcels of land. The first deed was dated October 25, 1870, acknowledged December 16, 1872, and recorded November 24,1873, and on its face it professed in consideration of $400.00 cash, to convey a specified part of a certain tract of land of five hundred acres in Jackson county owned by George Miller. The other deed…
1Opinion of the Court
GREEN, Judge :
Upon the question of fact, which has been raised in this case, whether the defendant B. F. Miller was a minor, when he served in the army of the United States, I think, there can be no reasonable doubt. He himself in his deposition taken on the 1st of June, 1882, states, that he was then thirty eight years old. He must therefore have been less than seventeen in the spring of 1861, when, he says, he enlisted, and the whole of his military service was rendered, while he was a minor. This is further proved by his own statement of his age, made when he obtained his marriage-license.…
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