Hinchman v. Ballard
West Virginia Supreme Court
An appeal from a decree of the circuit court of Monroe county, by the respondents in a suit in chancery pending In said court, wherein John Hinchman, in his own right and as administrator of William Hinchman, Jr., deceased, Andrew Hinchman, Mary Hinchman, Thomas Johnson and Minerva, his wife, Andrew A. Miller, James Miller, Elizabeth B. Miller, George Miller, Samuel W. Beard, and Sarah, his wife, George W. Poage and Cornelia A., his wife, William B. Johnson and Agnes, his…
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An appeal from a decree of the circuit court of Monroe county, by the respondents in a suit in chancery pending In said court, wherein John Hinchman, in his own right and as administrator of William Hinchman, Jr., deceased, Andrew Hinchman, Mary Hinchman, Thomas Johnson and Minerva, his wife, Andrew A. Miller, James Miller, Elizabeth B. Miller, George Miller, Samuel W. Beard, and Sarah, his wife, George W. Poage and Cornelia A., his wife, William B. Johnson and Agnes, his wife, and T. A. George and Mary S., his wife, were complainants, and Lewis Ballard, sheriff of said Monroe county, and as…
1Opinion of the Court
Haymond, President:
This cause was commenced in the circuit court of the county of Monroe in October, 1866, and the bill therein was filed at November rules of that year. The bill alleges thal on the 3d day of March, 1859, Thomas Johnson and William Hinchman, Jr., purchased of Douglas B. Layne three tracts of land, two of them called islands, one of which Layne purchased of General A. W. G. Davis, and the other of Col. John Alderson, and both together containing thirty-five acres; the third tract containing four hundred and fourteen acres, more or less,' which Layne purchased from Doctor…
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