Camden v. Creel
West Virginia Supreme Court
This cause arose in Wood county. The bill was filed at May rules, 1864, and the decree complained of was rendered by the circuit court of that county in June, 1868. There were several causes alleged in the bill and amended bills, as grounds of injunction to the collection of the balance of purchase money due from the estate of Samuel D. Karnes, the complainant below, to the defendant in the bill below, B. W. Creel, but this court only considered the question of the proper…
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This cause arose in Wood county. The bill was filed at May rules, 1864, and the decree complained of was rendered by the circuit court of that county in June, 1868. There were several causes alleged in the bill and amended bills, as grounds of injunction to the collection of the balance of purchase money due from the estate of Samuel D. Karnes, the complainant below, to the defendant in the bill below, B. W. Creel, but this court only considered the question of the proper location of one line in the survey, the matters concerning which are sufficiently stated in the opinion of Judge Maxwell.…
1Opinion of the Court
Maxwell, J".
This cause turns entirely upon the construction to be given to the calls of the grant to "William Harts-horne, of the 129 acre tract of land.
The calls are for the land as lying on the north side of Hughes’ river, beginniug at a black oak on the south bank of said river, thence crossing the river to the north side thereof, thence by certain courses and distances to a gum and two beeches, thence S. 8°, E 68 poles to two sugar trees and a buckeye on the north bank of said river, the same course continued 10 poles further, making in the whole 78 poles, to the south bank of said river,…
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