John v. Barnes
West Virginia Supreme Court
Appeal from and supersedeas to a decree of the circuit court of the county of Monongalia, rendered on the 7th day of September, 1880, in a cause in said court then pending, wherein Sisson John and George W. John, her husband, were plaintiffs, and Eliza Barnes and others were defendants, allowed upon the petition of said plaintiffs. ■Hon. A. B. Fleming, judge of the second 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 Monongalia, rendered on the 7th day of September, 1880, in a cause in said court then pending, wherein Sisson John and George W. John, her husband, were plaintiffs, and Eliza Barnes and others were defendants, allowed upon the petition of said plaintiffs. ■Hon. A. B. Fleming, judge of the second judicial circuit, rendered the decree appealed from. The facts of the case appear in the opinion of the Court. cited the following authorities: 12 Heisk. 645 ; 2 Burr. 1027; 3 Lom. Dig. 274; 3 Otto 326; "Wade. Law of Notice,…
1Opinion of the Court
Johnson, President,
announced the opinion of the Court;
This was a suit in equity brought by Sisson John and George W. John her husband in October, 1877, in the circuit court of Monongalia, to have partition of a tract of two hundred and forty-one and one-half acres of land among the devisees of John S. Dorsey, deceased, of whom the female plaintiff was one. The residue of said devisees were made defendants; also Benjamin M. Dorsey, who had purchased said tract of land from Lucy A. Dorsey, executrix of the last will and testament of said John S. Dorsey, deceased ; also the several alienees of…
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