Raines v. Raines

The decree appealed from denied the relief prayed for and dismissed the bill.

The import of the bill is to compel the defendant to execute a deed to plaintiff for a tract of land of 100 acres lying on Glady fork in Randolph county, which was conveyed to defendant by deed of March 13, 1903, from E. C. and David B. Canfield, plaintiff claiming that the land belongs to him under and by virtue of an agreement entered into with his father, the defendant, at the time of the purchase. Plaintiff's bill sets out in full the transaction by which the land was purchased from the Canfields, and avers that…