Neil v. Flynn Lumber Co.
West Virginia Supreme Court
Appeal from Circuit Court, Nicholas County. Suit for partition by Robert L. Neil against the Flynn Lumber Company and others. Decree for defendants, and plaintiff appeals.
1Opinion of the Court
Ritz, Judge:
Robert Neil died in the year 1888 leaving surviving him Alexander Middleton Neil, Nathan W. Neil, William Henry Harrison -Neil and Robert Grimes Neil, children by his first wife, and Joseph F. Van Pelt Neil, Julia C. Simms and Margaret J. Shelton, children by his second wife. At the time of his death he was the owner of a tract of land in Nicholas county containing about five hundred acres, the same being a part of a larger tract of about nine hundred acres devised to him by his father. Shortly after his death the three children by his last wife entered into an agreement to divide…
2Cases cited4 opinions
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