Yeager v. Musgrave
West Virginia Supreme Court
' Statement of the case by Woods, Judge: Some time in the year 1867, Asa Musgrave, then quite an old man having only two children, a sou B. Gt, Musgrave and a daughter Mary E. who had inter-married with E. E. Boseberry, divided his farm, which was all the land he owned, into two parcels nearly equal in value and conveyed one parcel thereof containing 147 acres to his son, retaining the other as long as he lived, upon which he supported himself from its proceeds.
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' Statement of the case by Woods, Judge: Some time in the year 1867, Asa Musgrave, then quite an old man having only two children, a sou B. Gt, Musgrave and a daughter Mary E. who had inter-married with E. E. Boseberry, divided his farm, which was all the land he owned, into two parcels nearly equal in value and conveyed one parcel thereof containing 147 acres to his son, retaining the other as long as he lived, upon which he supported himself from its proceeds. In 1879, he departed this life having first made his last will, which on the 22nd of May, 1879, was duly admitted to probate; and…
1Opinion of the Court
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GreeN, Judge :
The bill in this cause was a bill in the nature oí a bill of interpleader filed by Ambrose Yeager, executor of Asa Mus-grave, alleging, that he had in his hands as such executor certain bonds and notes and the proceeds of certain other bonds and notes payable to his testator, which he had received after his death from E. G. Musgrave, the son of his testator, who claimed that they had been given to him by the testator about a year before the testator’s death as a gift so as to 'make the amount, which he would receive from the testator, his father, including a tract of…
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