Castleman's Adm'r v. Castleman
West Virginia Supreme Court
• Appeal from Circuit Court, Jefferson County. . Action by J ames J. Singleton, administrator of H. W. Castle-man, against Dewanna Castleman and others. Decree for defendants, and plaintiff appeals.
1Opinion of the Court
Miller, Judge:
This is an appeal from a decree of the circuit court, pronounced February 18, 1908, denying to a purchaser abatement of purchase money on account of alleged deficiency of acres sold and purchased.
By decree of August 8, 1887, and another supplementing it of October 14, 1892, special commissioners appointed were authorized to make sale, upon the terms prescribed, of “396 *409acres, 1 rood and 26 perches, Home Tract, and tlie 419 acres Mountain Tract of land in the bill and proceeding's mentioned.” By the latter decree the commissioners thereby appointed in place of those appointed by…
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