Patrick v. Dryden
West Virginia Supreme Court
This was a proceeding upon a caveat entered in the circuit court of Kanawha county, in which Spicer Patrick, James H. Rogers, and others were caveators, and John Dryden and William A. McMullin, were caveatees. There was a judgment in favor of the caveatees, rendered by said court on the 16th day of April, 1869. An appeal was granted, to operate as a supersedeas, upon the petition of the caveators. The material facts are fully set forth in the opinion of Raymond, Judge.
1Opinion of the CourtHaymoND, Judge
This is a caveat case. The caveat seems to have been filed in the clerk’s office of the circuit court of Kanawha county, on the 1st day of Januaiy, 1855, and was filed in the Virginia land office on the 26th day of December, 1854: The caveatees are John Dryden and W. A. Mc-Mullin. The caveat was filed by the caveators to prevent a grant issuing by the commonwealth of Virginia' to the cavatees upon a survey of three hundred and twelve and a half acres of land, made for the caveatees on the 13th day of July, 1854, lying and being in Ka-nawha county, on Wilson’s Furnace hollow, a northeast…
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