Tracewell v. Boggs
West Virginia Supreme Court
Appeal from and supersedeas to a decree of the circuit court of Wood county, rendered on the 2d day of August, 1875, in a cause therein pending, wherein Edward Tracewell was plaintiff, and F. C. Boggs and others ■ wore defendants, granted and allowed on the petition of said If. C. Boggs.
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Appeal from and supersedeas to a decree of the circuit court of Wood county, rendered on the 2d day of August, 1875, in a cause therein pending, wherein Edward Tracewell was plaintiff, and F. C. Boggs and others ■ wore defendants, granted and allowed on the petition of said If. C. Boggs. Hon. James Monroe Jackson, judge of the fifth judicial circuit, rendered the decree appealed from. •Moore, Judge, furnishes the following statement of the case : Upon an appeal from the decree rendered August 2 . 1875, by the circuit court of Wood county. The bill shows, that James Thompson, died seized of a…
1Opinion of the CourtMoore, Judge
The appellant considers the court erred by overruling the demurrer, because it is admitted in the bill, that the sale was by the acre, $19.00 per acre, and that four and one-half acres were reserved and not sold, to appellant, because the title thereto was in dispute; that the bill does not show, where the said four and one-half acres are, whether in the centre or adjoining the sides of the whole tract; and that the deed, tendered with the bill, conveys three hundred and forty-four and one-half acres, while the bill alleges that only three hundred and forty acres are conveyed to appellant,…
2Cases cited2 opinions
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