Cooper v. Coleman

MilleR, Judge:

In ejectment the jury found for plaintiff an estate in fee simple in the lot of land sued for and described in the declaration by metes and bounds, and that the defendants 'were unlawfully withholding the possession thereof from him; *302and the judgment pronounced thereon was that plaintiff recover of the defandants the possession of said lot, being Lot No. 2 in Dil’s Addition to the City of Parkersburg.

The title relied on by the plaintiff was a tax deed of March 5, 1917, from C. E. Pahl, Clerk of the County Court of Wood County, West Virginia, to A. B. Cooper, and the tax…