Beery v. Irick
Supreme Court of Virginia
This was a suit in equity instituted in June 1866, in the Circuit court of Rockingham county, and afterwards transferred to the Circuit court of Augusta, by Elizabeth Beery, the widow, and the children and heirs of Abram Beery, deceased, against Andrew B. Irick, M. Harvey Effinger, and others, to recover from Irick and Effinger a part of the purchase money of a tract of land sold in 1857, under the decree of the Circuit court of Rockingham county, in a suit by the widow and…
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This was a suit in equity instituted in June 1866, in the Circuit court of Rockingham county, and afterwards transferred to the Circuit court of Augusta, by Elizabeth Beery, the widow, and the children and heirs of Abram Beery, deceased, against Andrew B. Irick, M. Harvey Effinger, and others, to recover from Irick and Effinger a part of the purchase money of a tract of land sold in 1857, under the decree of the Circuit court of Rockingham county, in a suit by the widow and heirs of Abram Beery for partition. All the papers in that suit were destroyed during the war. The bill sets out the…
1Opinion of the CourtAnderson, J.
A chancery suit w7as brought in the Circuit court of Rockingham county, in the year 1856, by the widow and heirs of Abraham Beery, for a partition of the lands, of which he died seized. The record of the suit has been lost or destroyed, or burned up, with the other records of the court, and w7e have only secondary evidence of what was done. There was a decree for the sale of thé land, and the sale was made in February 1857, by John C. Woodson, who was appointed a commissioner for the purpose ; which sale was reported to and confirmed by the court. The terms of the sale-were, one-third down,…
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