State v. Haymond
West Virginia Supreme Court
Appeal from Circuit Court, Monongalia County. Bill by tbe State of West Virginia, by the Commissioner of School Lands of Marion County, for the sale of land, with answer by Kate Preston Haymond and others, claiming a right to redeem and answers by J. Walter Barnes and others, by Harry Shaw, and by the Fairmont, Morgantown & Pittsburgh' Railway Company.
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Appeal from Circuit Court, Monongalia County. Bill by tbe State of West Virginia, by the Commissioner of School Lands of Marion County, for the sale of land, with answer by Kate Preston Haymond and others, claiming a right to redeem and answers by J. Walter Barnes and others, by Harry Shaw, and by the Fairmont, Morgantown & Pittsburgh' Railway Company. From a decree granting a redemption to Kate Preston Haymond and others, and denying all title and right of the other answering parties, the Fairmont, Morgantown & Pittsburgh Railway Company appeals.
1Opinion of the Court
POFEENBARGER, JlJDGE :
The decree brought up by this appeal was entered -in a suit instituted in the name of the State by the Commissioner of School Lands of Marion County, under the provisions of eh. 105, of the Code, for the sale of two small strips of land in the City of Fairmont, bordering on the Monongahela River, and described in the bill and proceedings as Lot No. 1, containing .061 of an acre, and Lot No. 2, containing .963 of an aere, as having been forfeited for non-entry and non-payment of taxes in the names of the heirs of Jonathan H. Haymond. Kate Preston Haymond and other heirs…
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