Robinson v. James
West Virginia Supreme Court
Statement of the case by Gbeen, Judge : This was a chancery suit brought by James H. Robinson in the Circuit Court of Ohio county on May 15,1882, against Annie M. James and J. S. James, her husband, and George Robinson, receiver.
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Statement of the case by Gbeen, Judge : This was a chancery suit brought by James H. Robinson in the Circuit Court of Ohio county on May 15,1882, against Annie M. James and J. S. James, her husband, and George Robinson, receiver. The bill was filed at June rules, 1882. It sets out, that the plaintiff is the father and sole heir of James A. Robinson, who died intestate on the 2d day of December, 1879, without having been married; — that the plaintiff’s father, William Robinson, died intestate on the 27th day of September, 1852, leaving no widow hut five children living, one daughter, Sarah Ann…
1Opinion of the Court
(xRBEN, Judge :
The bill in this case alleges, that on the 1st day of July, 1849, William Robinson, the father of the plaintiff, made an agreement in writing for a valuable consideration to transfer all his real estate to his son, William Tate Robinson, who has since made a voluntary deed of all this real estate to his daughter, one of the defendants; — that by this agreement William Tate Robinson agreed, that he would, as soon as William Robinson had erected three brick dwellings on three adjoining lots, part of the real estate to be conveyed to him *233by an absolute deed, convey one of the same…
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