Weinrich v. Wolf
West Virginia Supreme Court
Green, Judge, furnishes the following statement of the case: A tract of land in Ritchie county was charged on the assess- or’s books in 1866 in the name of Jacob Smith’s estate, the taxes on it being five dollars and sixty cents.
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Green, Judge, furnishes the following statement of the case: A tract of land in Ritchie county was charged on the assess- or’s books in 1866 in the name of Jacob Smith’s estate, the taxes on it being five dollars and sixty cents. The taxes not being’ paid, it was on September 10,1867, sold for these taxes with interest and commissions amounting to seven dollars; and on December 27, 1869, the recorder of Ritchie county made a deed for said tract of land to the purchaser thereof, Jacob Wolf, which was duly admitted to record on January 4,1870. But before it was admitted to record a verbal…
1Opinion of the Court
Green, Judge:
The first error assigned by the appellant is that the circuit court erroneously overruled in its decree of October 31, 1878, the demurrer to the bill filed by the defendant, Jacob Wolf. The whole argument of the appellant’s counsel is based on the assumption, that Jacob Wolf and wife by their deed to the plaintiffs, Lewis Weinrich and Samuel Sinnett, had conveyed without warranty two undivided third parts of this tract of land of one thousand six hundred acres in controversy, which deed was duly recorded; and that subsequently thereto the said Wolf conveyed this tract of land to…
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