Mliler v. Nixon
West Virginia Supreme Court
Error to Circuit Court, Cabell County. Action by Lizzie Miller against Robert Nixon. Judgment for defendant and plaintiff brings error.
1Opinion of the Court
Poffenbarger, President:
Correctness of the finding and judgment of the Circuit Court, for the defendant, in an action of ejectment for the recovery of the possession of a ten foot strip of land, lying within the City of Huntington, entered on a submission of the case to the court in lieu of a jury, upon an agreed statement of facts, is challenged by this writ of error.
The issue turns almost entirely upon the interpretation of the deeds under which the parties claim, in the light of other deeds conveying related properties and executed by their common grantor and his predecessor in title.…
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