Pitzer v. Burns
West Virginia Supreme Court
This was an appeal, by John Burns, from a decree of the circuit court of Berkeley county, rendered on the fourth day of November, 1870, in a suit therein pending, between John W. Pitzer, administrator of John H. Likens, deceased, Dennis Murphy and Charles James Faulkner, complainants, and John Burns, John P. Kear-fott, administrator of Samuel D. Campbell, deceased, John S. Light, Bartley Pitts and Ruth his wife late Ruth Burns, John W. Pitzer, administrator of Meverell…
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This was an appeal, by John Burns, from a decree of the circuit court of Berkeley county, rendered on the fourth day of November, 1870, in a suit therein pending, between John W. Pitzer, administrator of John H. Likens, deceased, Dennis Murphy and Charles James Faulkner, complainants, and John Burns, John P. Kear-fott, administrator of Samuel D. Campbell, deceased, John S. Light, Bartley Pitts and Ruth his wife late Ruth Burns, John W. Pitzer, administrator of Meverell Locke, deceased, Jacob Vandoren, Jr., survivor of the late partnership of Robert C. Briarly & Co, John W. .Pitzer,…
1Opinion of the Court
HaYMOND, PRESIDENT :
The plaintiffs filed their bill in equity in the circuit court of Berkeley county, in a cause commenced on the the seventh day of September, 1867. The bill was filed *65rat'October rules, 1867; and it alleges that on the twenty-sixth day of September, 1845, the defendant, Burns, Jr., of Berkeley county, executed a deed of trust making Samuel D. Campbell the trustee, and conveying his undivided moiety of a tract of two hundred and seventy-one acres of land to secure debts named in the deed of trust, among others, a debt due to plaintiff Faulkner for $300, with interest from…
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