State v. King
West Virginia Supreme Court
Appeal from Circuit Court, Marion County. Suit by the State against Henry C. King and others. From the decree Henry C. King appeals.
1Opinion of the Court
POFFENBARGER, JuDGE:
While the well known suit of the State against Henry C. King, for sale of the lands embraced in the Robert Morris, grants, as having been forfeited for non-entry for taxation, was pending, one Bruce McDonald on the 10th day of April, 1906. executed a deed to J. D. Lowry, trustee, for a tract of land, containing about 200 acres lying within one of the Morris grants, some portions of which had previously bqen cleared and occupied by “squatters,” none of whom claimed ownership of it. McDonald had never occupied it and held no paper title thereto, either good or bad. Its…
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