Grinnan v. Edwards
West Virginia Supreme Court
Appeal from a decree of the circuit court of the county of Kanawha rendered on the 5th day of December, 1881, in a cause in said court then pending, wherein A. G. Grinnan and others were plaintiffs, and W. H. Edwards and others were defendants, allowed upon the petition of said plaintiffs. Hon. E. A. Guthrie, judge of the seventh judicial circuit, rendered the decree appealed from.
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Appeal from a decree of the circuit court of the county of Kanawha rendered on the 5th day of December, 1881, in a cause in said court then pending, wherein A. G. Grinnan and others were plaintiffs, and W. H. Edwards and others were defendants, allowed upon the petition of said plaintiffs. Hon. E. A. Guthrie, judge of the seventh judicial circuit, rendered the decree appealed from. Woods, Judge, furnishes the following statement of the ease: At the March rules 1875, the plaintiffs, Abigail H. Smith, Andrew G. Grinnan in his own right,'and as trustee for Wm.' K. Smith, E. B. Chewning and his…
1Judgment of the CourtWoods, Judge
This cause was heard and determined in the court below, upon the demurrers to the plaintiffs’ original and amended bills and therefore every allegation thereof upon consi deration of said demurrers is taken to be true. It is therefore admitted, that the plaintiff, Andrew G. Grinnan, on the 15th of October, 1860, who at that time, and for many years prior thereto, resided in Madison county, Virginia, where he continued to reside during the continuance of the civil war, entered into a contract .with the defendant, William II. Edwards, whereby he sold, and agreed to convey to the said Grinnan a…
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