State v. Armstrong

Fox, Judge:

This appeal grows out of an application to redeem two parcels of land designated as Lots Nos. 7 and 8, in Blankenship Addition to Rhodell, in Raleigh County, West Virginia, returned delinquent in the names of R. R. Ford and J. A. Armstrong for nonpayment of taxes; and which became irredeemable on July 1, 1947, and were sold in the above styled proceeding on December 15, 1948, and purchased by B. W. Lilly. It appears that R. R. Ford has departed this life leaving as his sole heir his wife Laura L. Ford.

Following the sale of said lots to B. W. Lilly, Laura L. Ford became acquainted…