Wyatt v. Simpson
West Virginia Supreme Court
Appeal from, and supersedeas to, a decree of the circuit court of Wirt county rendered on May 8, 1874. The appeal was taken by Joseph H. Simpson and John A. Steel, two of the defendants below — O. L. Williams, late recorder of said county being the remaining defendant. The plaintiffs below were Amanda Wyatt and her husband, James Wyatt. The case is fully stated in the opinion of the Court. The Hon. James M. Jackson, judge of said circuit court, presided at the hearing below.
1Opinion of the Court
Paule, Judge :
The plaintiffs Amanda Wyatt and her husband, James Wyatt, filed their bill in the circuit court of Wirt comity in Sejitember, 1873, alleging that a tract of about ninety-one acres of land belonging to the plaintiff Amanda Wyatt, had been sold for the taxes due thereon for the year 1868 ; that the plaintiff had redeemed said land by paying the amount of the redemption money to the recorder of the county of Wirt, within-one year of the sale thereof, the defendant Joseph H. Simpson, not being a resident of said county and not being found therein at that time — the receipt for said…
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