Williams v. Stone
Wyoming Supreme Court
EeeoR to the District Court for the county of Laramie, Hon. Richard H. Scott, Judge. Thomas H. Stone brought this action against David Williams, Leanor Williams, H. W. Bennett, J. A. Myers, Jacob M. Murphy, F. E. Roots, J. R. Roots, William A. Me Dowell, Martin Melhorn, C. W. Gregg, and Haney J. Graham, to set aside and annul certain deeds, trust deeds, and an assignment of a contract for lands, and also to annul a certain contract between said Stone and David Williams,…
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EeeoR to the District Court for the county of Laramie, Hon. Richard H. Scott, Judge. Thomas H. Stone brought this action against David Williams, Leanor Williams, H. W. Bennett, J. A. Myers, Jacob M. Murphy, F. E. Roots, J. R. Roots, William A. Me Dowell, Martin Melhorn, C. W. Gregg, and Haney J. Graham, to set aside and annul certain deeds, trust deeds, and an assignment of a contract for lands, and also to annul a certain contract between said Stone and David Williams, which had resulted in the said conveyances sought to be cancelled. The grounds assigned for the cancellation were want of…
1Opinion of the Court
CoNaway, Justice.
On August 30th, 1892, defendant in error was-the owner of a ranch property near Cheyenne, Wyoming. The ranch consisted of ’320 acres of land to-which defendant in error had title, and 420 acres of' railroad land which he held by an assignment from A. Gilchrist of a contract with the Union Pacific Railway Company for the purchase of the land, and on which contract there remained to be paid $280 in two equal annual instalments in May, 1893, and May, 1894, to en~ *410title defendant in error to a final deed. Defendant in ■error also owned a one-third interest in the Stone and Me Gee…
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