Fulton v. Messenger
West Virginia Supreme Court
Appeal from Circuit Court, Gilmer County. Action by E. L>. FLilton against John Messenger and others. From a decree in favor of plaintiff, defendants John Messenger and another appeal.
1Opinion of the Court
Sawders, President:
This is an appeal from and supersedeas to a decree of the circuit court of Gilmer county, prosecuted by John Messenger and the Stewart’s Creek Coal Company, the decree being entered in a cause in which E. D. .Fulton was plaintiff and John Messenger and others were defendants.
*479On January 21, 1901, by a contract in writing, John Messenger and wife, in consideration of the sum of ten dollars per acre, of which one dollar was paid, optioned to L. H. Barnett or his assigns three hundred and fifty acres óí land, more or loss, to be surveyed at the expense of Barnett, and the…
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