Jarrett v. Jarrett
West Virginia Supreme Court
Upon the petition of Samuel Jarrett and James Jarrett, Jr., an appeal was granted from, and supersedeas allowed to, a decree of the circuit court of Greenbrier county, rendered at its October term 1873, in three causes in chancery, in said court then pending, wbicb were heard together, and which were instituted by Joseph Jarrett and others heirs of James Jarrett, deceased, against Samuel Jarrett, James Jarret, Jr. and othei’s, the object being to set aside four deeds…
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Upon the petition of Samuel Jarrett and James Jarrett, Jr., an appeal was granted from, and supersedeas allowed to, a decree of the circuit court of Greenbrier county, rendered at its October term 1873, in three causes in chancery, in said court then pending, wbicb were heard together, and which were instituted by Joseph Jarrett and others heirs of James Jarrett, deceased, against Samuel Jarrett, James Jarret, Jr. and othei’s, the object being to set aside four deeds executed by said James Jarrett in his life time, to said Joseph Jarrett, James Jarrett, Jr., and one Samuel Leonard by which…
1Opinion of the CourtJohnson, Judge
Much interest having been taken in these causes, by the parties interested, and the causeshaving been re-submitted to the Court, and the able counsel on both sides having, with much earnestness and ability, contended for what, they believed under the law and facts of the causes they were entitled to, I have endeavored, in the lengthy statement of the case, to so set out the substance of the evidence on both sides, touching the capacity of the grantor, as will illustrate the principles of the *626opinion, and justify me in the conclusions to which I have come.
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