Bible Society v. Pendleton
West Virginia Supreme Court
An appeal by James S. Brown and Ann B. Morgan from a decree of the circuit court of Berkeley county, rendered on the 4th day of September, 1871, in a suit pending in said court, wherein the American Bible Society and the Board of Domestic Missions of the General Assembly of the Presbyterian Church of the United States of America were complainants, and Bobert Berry, James S. Brown, William A. Morgan and Ann B. Morgan, his wife, the Board of Foreign Missions of the…
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An appeal by James S. Brown and Ann B. Morgan from a decree of the circuit court of Berkeley county, rendered on the 4th day of September, 1871, in a suit pending in said court, wherein the American Bible Society and the Board of Domestic Missions of the General Assembly of the Presbyterian Church of the United States of America were complainants, and Bobert Berry, James S. Brown, William A. Morgan and Ann B. Morgan, his wife, the Board of Foreign Missions of the Presbyterian Church of the United States, James A. Graham, Stated Clerk of the Winchester Presbytery, Edmund Pendleton, John M.…
1Opinion of the Court
Paull, Judge :
Mafia Cooper, residing in the town of Martinsburg, in Berkeley county, State of Virginia, made and executed her last will and testament, bearing date on the 30th day of June, 1854, and executed a codicil thereto, bearing date on the 20th day of October, 1854. This *81will and codicil were duly admitted to probate in the circuit court of said county, on the 11th day of January, 1855...The 11th clause in said will is as follows, to-wit: “Eleventh. I have conveyed my land in Pennsylvania to Edmund Pendleton, in trust, for the purposes set forth in the deed of conveyance thereof, to be…
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