Legal Opinion

Lynch v. Davis

West Virginia Supreme Court

Decided January 23, 1917PublishedCited by 22 opinions

Appeal from Circuit Court, Harrison County. Suit by Effie Lynch and others against Lola M. Davis and others. Lola M. Davis answered the bill. Prom the decree for defendant, plaintiffs appeal.

1Opinion of the Court

Ritz, Judge:

In the year 1898, by the death of their mother,- Effie Lynch, Ida B. Davis, Anna L. Spindle, Ella Meek, Rufus H. Randolph and Lola M. Davis became the owners of fifty-four acres of land situate in the county of Harrison. Subsequently Rufus H. Randolph conveyed his one-sixth interest in this tract of land to his sister Effie Lynch. In the year 1895 the owners of the land decided to partition the same in kind among themselves, and to this end they secured the services of a surveyor who went upon the land and divided it into six equal parcels. The parties then assigned one of these…

2Cases cited2 opinions

  1. South Penn Oil Co. v. SnodgrassWest Virginia Supreme Court · 1912
  2. Harness v. Eastern Oil Co.West Virginia Supreme Court · 1901

3Cited by22 opinions

  1. French v. GeorgeCourt of Appeals of Texas · 1942
  2. Phillips Petroleum Company v. Heber A. Peterson and Astrid N. D. Peterson, Phillips Petroleum Company v. John H. Haslem and Rebecca H. HaslemCourt of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit · 1954
  3. Kimbley v. LuckeySupreme Court of Oklahoma · 1919
  4. Campbell v. LynchWest Virginia Supreme Court · 1917
  5. Pittsburgh & West Va. Gas Co. v. AnkromWest Virginia Supreme Court · 1918

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