Jones v. Reid Adm'r
West Virginia Supreme Court
Appeal, with supersedeas, granted upon the petition of John Reid, administrator de bonis non with the will an-' nexed of William O. Reid, deceased, to a decree of the circuit court of Ohio county, rendered on the 8th day of July, 1876, in a cause in chancery then in said court pending, in which Mary Ann Jones was plaintiff and said John Reid, administrator as aforesaid, Robert James Reid and others were defendants.
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Appeal, with supersedeas, granted upon the petition of John Reid, administrator de bonis non with the will an-' nexed of William O. Reid, deceased, to a decree of the circuit court of Ohio county, rendered on the 8th day of July, 1876, in a cause in chancery then in said court pending, in which Mary Ann Jones was plaintiff and said John Reid, administrator as aforesaid, Robert James Reid and others were defendants. The following is a statement of the case furnished by JOHNSON, Judge: Mary Ann Jones, at May rules, 1873, filed her bill in the office of the clerk of the circuit court of Ohio…
1Opinion of the CourtJohnson, Judge
The record in this cause being so confused, it is after much patient study, that I am enabled to come to a conclusion, as to what should be done in the cause.
The most important question meets us on the threshold: Should the demurrer to the bill have been sustained? The first ground of demurer is, “that it appears from the said bill, that the certificates and money mentioned therein, were reduced to the possession of the said Wm. O. Reid in his life time; and the said Reid was the husband of the complainant.” If this were an action at law, and the same allegations were made in the declaration,…
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