List v. Hornbrook
West Virginia Supreme Court
The facts in this case are substantially stated in the opinion of the president. It is unnecessary to give any of the evidence produced to prove a contract in erecting the wall, as the president states that it wholly failed to sustain all the allegations of the bill in that particular.
1Opinion of the Court
Brown, President.
Jacob Hornbrook filed his bill in the circuit court of Ohio county, against Daniel C. List, trustee, &c., alleging that Benjamim F. Sanborn, before the year 1842, was the owner of the east half of lot No. 1 of square 6 in the city of "Wheeling; that the other half of said lot at that time was held by Samuel Sprigg and Charles D. Xnox in trust for the use of Eliza Jane Zane, that the deed of trust gave full power to the said trustees or their survivors to build on said lot; that the said Sanborn being anxious to improve his half of said lot, and the said trustees contemplating…
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