Anderson v. Snyder
West Virginia Supreme Court
Appeal from and supersedeas to two decrees of the circuit court of the county of Greenbrier, rendered respectively on the 12th day of June, 1880, and on the 11th day oí November, 1880, in a cause in said court then pending wherein Jennie Anderson was plaintiff, and "William R. Snyder was defendant, allowed upon the petition of said Snyder. Hon. Homer A. Holt, judge of the eighth judicial circuit, rendered the decrees appealed from.
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Appeal from and supersedeas to two decrees of the circuit court of the county of Greenbrier, rendered respectively on the 12th day of June, 1880, and on the 11th day oí November, 1880, in a cause in said court then pending wherein Jennie Anderson was plaintiff, and "William R. Snyder was defendant, allowed upon the petition of said Snyder. Hon. Homer A. Holt, judge of the eighth judicial circuit, rendered the decrees appealed from. Woods, Judge, furnishes the following statement of the case: In 1878 Jennie Anderson, the wife of Charles S. Anderson, filed her bill in the circuit court of…
1Opinion of the Court
Woods. Judge,
announced the opinion of the Court:
The first reflection that occurs in the consideration of the questions arising out of this case is, that the circuit court committed no error to the prejudice of the appellant by its decree founded upon his consent to the cancellation of said deed from plaintiff and her husband to the defendant, Snyder, for the said Greenbrier lands, and of said agreement to convey to said plaintiff said Roanoke lands; the second reflection-is, that such a cancellation by consent of said Snyder and the plaintiff, and without any proofs to authorize the same,…
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