Trader v. Jarvis
West Virginia Supreme Court
Snyder, Judge, famishes the following statement of the case: By written contract or title-bond, dated May 18, 1858, Abner Snider sold to Samuel Trader two lots, ETos. 7 and 8, in the town of Grafton, Taylor county, for one thousand two hundred dollars, the last payment of which was for two hundred and eighty dollars, payable April 1, 1859, and the said Snider bound himself to convey said lots to said Trader upon the payment of the purchase-money.
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Snyder, Judge, famishes the following statement of the case: By written contract or title-bond, dated May 18, 1858, Abner Snider sold to Samuel Trader two lots, ETos. 7 and 8, in the town of Grafton, Taylor county, for one thousand two hundred dollars, the last payment of which was for two hundred and eighty dollars, payable April 1, 1859, and the said Snider bound himself to convey said lots to said Trader upon the payment of the purchase-money. On said title-bond there are two endorsements, the first is an assignment thereof by sa.id Samuel Trader to Alfred and George A. Trader, dated…
1Opinion of the Court
Snyder, Judas:
The proof shows that the appellant was under twenty-one years of 'age at the time said title-bond for said lots was assigned to him and Alfred Trader and that he did not become twenty-one years of age until August 22, 1862, after the agreement of February 16, 1860, for the sale of said property to the defendant, Jarvis. The important question then is, ■whether or not the plaintiff by said assignment acquired any beneficial interest in said property of which he could not be divested without a conveyance from him ? For it is conceded that if such was the fact the appellant did not…
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