Virginia-Tennessee Coal & Iron Co. v. McClelland
Supreme Court of Virginia
Appeal from a decree of the Circuit Court of Wise county, pronounced April 20, 1900, in a suit in chancery, wherein the appellees were the complainants, and the appellant and another were the defendants.
1Opinion of the CourtHarrison, J.
In 1883, M. L. McClelland, a householder and head of a family, executed and had recorded Iris deed describing a certain tract of about one hundred acres of land, and claiming the benefit of the same as a homestead, pursuant to the provisions of the statute in such cases made and provided.
In 1886, being still a householder and head of a family, he made a deed, in which Ids wife did not unite, conveying the coal and timber in and upon the land, theretofore claimed as a homestead, to O. Barrett, Jr. Subsequently, O. Barrett, Jr., sold and conveyed the same to the appellant.
This suit is brought…
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