Thomas v. Linn

Holt, Judge :

On appeal from a decree of the Circuit Court of Marlon county, rendered against H. R. Linn et al. in favor of Benjamin P. Thomas, on March 17,1893, for one hundred and sixty three dollars and fifty cents and costs. The cause was referred to a commissioner, and from his report, and the pleadings and evidence, the facts, are as follows:

On the 1st day of October, 1885, Valentine Nichols sold and conveyed to A. W. Henderson, for the sum of four thousand dollars, a certain tract of land containing one hundred and fifty five acres, situate in Monongalia county, W. Va., on the Middle…