Billingsley v. Clelland
West Virginia Supreme Court
I.— The demurrer to the MU should be sustained and (he hill dismissed. Fraud is not assignable. The right to file a MU to set aside a legal instrument for a fraud, committed upon the assignor is not assignable.—5 Johns. (N. Y.) 565; 102 TJ. S. 154-5; 27 A. St. R. 102; 28 A. St. R. 106-8; 88 A. I). 740; 56 A. D. 444, 447 note, 449; 2 Story Eq. Jur. § 1,04Oí/; 1 A. & E. Ency.
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I.— The demurrer to the MU should be sustained and (he hill dismissed. Fraud is not assignable. The right to file a MU to set aside a legal instrument for a fraud, committed upon the assignor is not assignable.—5 Johns. (N. Y.) 565; 102 TJ. S. 154-5; 27 A. St. R. 102; 28 A. St. R. 106-8; 88 A. I). 740; 56 A. D. 444, 447 note, 449; 2 Story Eq. Jur. § 1,04Oí/; 1 A. & E. Ency. Law, 833; 70 A. D. 489; 1 You. & Coll. 481; 54 N. W. It. 168; 94 Micb. 381; 7 Mackey, 175. II.—Husband’s voluntary settlement of property on Ms wife is lawful —25 W. Ya. 242, 255, 256. III.—Assignee does not acquire the…
1Opinion of the Court
English, Judge:
On the second Monday in September, 1865, Fontaine Smith, commissioner, sold, under a decree of the Circuit Court of Marion county, a tract of land situated in said county, containing seventy five acres and a fraction; at which sale Zackwell Clelland became the purchaser for the sum of one thousand one hundred and sixty two dollars and fifty cents—paying in cash ninety five dollars and thirty six cents, and executing to said commissioner his three several bonds, with security, for three hundred and eighty seven dollars each, bearing interest in accordance with the terms of the…
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