Ammons v. South Penn Oil Co.
West Virginia Supreme Court
Appeal from Circuit Court, Monongalia County. Suit by Howard L. Ammons and others against the-South Penn Oil Company and others. Decree for plaintiffs, and defendant oil company appeals.
1Opinion of the Court
McWhorter, President:
Daniel Conaway, of Monongalia County, devised to his-daughter, Armina Ammons, for the term of her natural life, and at her death to her children (subject however, to a life estate therein, which he devised to his wife, Malinda), a tract of two hundred acres of land in said county, which, on being surveyed, proved to contain two hundred. *612and forty-three acres. On the 17th day of March, 1891, Malinda conveyed by deed of that date her life estate in said tract of land to her son-in-law, Milton A. Ammons, and her daughter, Armina Ammons, his wife, in consideration of natural…
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