Ritter v. Couch
West Virginia Supreme Court
Appeal from Circuit Court, Kanawha County. Bill by George Ritter and others against George S. Couch and others. Decree for plaintiffs, and defendant Couch appeals.
1Opinion of the Court
Bmusnsrojsr, Peesideht :
Charleston was incorporated in 1794 as a town. In 1831 Daniel Ruffner made a deed to the president, recorder and trustees of Charleston forever “for use of said town as a graveyard or a place of interment for said town,” a lot of one acre of ground. The deed contained a covenant that if at any time the said corporate body should cease to exist, or become incapable of holding said lot of ground, then said Ruffner and his heirs should “stand seized to the use of said town of Charleston or the inhabitants thereof.” The deed contained the covenant that the “parties of the…
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