Boggs' v. Harper's Administrator
West Virginia Supreme Court
Appeal from Circuit Court, Pendleton County. Bill by John Bogg's against Elijah Harper. Pending the suit, the parties died. A decree was rendered, from which Isaac P. Boggs, executor of the original complainant, appeals.
1Opinion of the Court
English, Judge:
By an agreement in writing, dated November 28, 1860, Elijah Harper contracted to sell to John Boggs certain tracts of land, namely, all the lands' deeded to him by Philip Harper, Sr., deceased, lying on both sides of the North Fork, in Pendleton County, W. Va., for the sum of two thousand and eighteen dollars; and said Elijah Harper, on his part, bound himself, his heirs, etc., to make or cause to be made a good, lawful warranty deed, and free it of all incumbrance, giving peaceable possession of all the land, except the field seeded in grain on March 1,1861, and possession of…
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