Mathews v. Jarrett
West Virginia Supreme Court
Appeal from and supersedeas to a decree of the circuit court of the county of Greenbrier, rendered on the 8th day oí Hovember, 1879, in a cause in said court then pending, wherein Allen Mathews and others were plaintiffs, and Joseph Jarrett and others were defendants, allowed upon the petition of said plaintiffs. Hon. Homer A. Holt, judge of the eighth judicial circuit, rendered the decree appealed from.
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Appeal from and supersedeas to a decree of the circuit court of the county of Greenbrier, rendered on the 8th day oí Hovember, 1879, in a cause in said court then pending, wherein Allen Mathews and others were plaintiffs, and Joseph Jarrett and others were defendants, allowed upon the petition of said plaintiffs. Hon. Homer A. Holt, judge of the eighth judicial circuit, rendered the decree appealed from. The facts of the case are sufficiently stated in the opinion of the Court. cited the following authorities: 1 Greenl. Ev. § 558 note(l); 3 Com. 424 ; 5 Gilm. 113; 2 Story Eq. Juris. § 776; 14…
1Judgment of the CourtSeydek, Judge
This suit was brought in the circuit court of Greenbrier county by Allen Mathews and Oliver Jarrett to enforce the specific performance of a contract for the purchase of ten acres of land, situate on the waters of Muddy creek in said county, and on which the plaintiff Mathews then resided. The bill was filed at the April rules, 1879, and avers, that the plaintiffs entered into a contract with the defendant, Joseph Jarrett, for the purchase of said land; that they paid him on said purchase forty-five dollars and twenty-five cents and, on the 27th day of March, 1871, received from him a…
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