Brandon v. West
Nevada Supreme Court
Appeal from tbe District Court, Washoe County; B. If. Curler, Judge. Suit by William J. Brandon against N. H. West, as administrator of the estate of B. G. Clow, deceased, and others. From a decree in favor of defendants, plaintiff appeals. The facts sufficiently appear in the opinion.
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Appeal from tbe District Court, Washoe County; B. If. Curler, Judge. Suit by William J. Brandon against N. H. West, as administrator of the estate of B. G. Clow, deceased, and others. From a decree in favor of defendants, plaintiff appeals. The facts sufficiently appear in the opinion. I. In this action plaintiff sought to compel defendants as the administrator and heirs-at-law of B. G. Glow, deceased, to execute a deed to plaintiff of a piece of land, less than one acre in extent, near Reno, being a piece of land plaintiff purchased from B. G..Clow just before the death of the latter. The…
1Opinion of the Court
By the Court,
Talbot, J.:
This action was brought against the defendant West as administrator, and the other defendants as heirs, of the estate of B. G. Clow, deceased, to compel the execution of a deed to plaintiff for a triangular piece of land, marked with three iron pins and less than one acre in extent, as described in *506the complaint. The uncontradicted testimony of several witnesses introduced by the plaintiff shows -that Clow in the year 1901, and a considerable time before his death, sold to plaintiff a sand hill or sand pit which is identical with or embraced in the boundaries of the…
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