Legal Opinion

Day v. Fay

West Virginia Supreme Court

Decided February 20, 1906Published

Appeal from Circuit Court, Greenbrier County. Bills by Alice C. Day against H. H. Fay and others and by the State against Alice C. Day and others. Decree for Alice C. Day against A. G. Williams, and bill by the State dismissed; and the State and said Wliliams appeal.

1Opinion of the Court

Sanders, Judge:

On Dec. 19, 1857, John Williams, the father of A. G. William, the appellant, granted to the father of the appellee, A. G. Chenoweth, a tract of 400 acres of land, situated in Greenbrier county. A. G. Chenoweth was a minister of the Methodist Episcopal church, and, for some time prior to the war between the States, was stationed at Frankford, in Greenbrier county, but removed from that place, and died *66intestate, in the year 1864, in the State of Indiana, leaving a widow and several children.

The widow, Ann 0. Chenoweth, died testate in the year 1881, devising all her property,…

2Cases cited12 opinions

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