Swann v. Thayer
West Virginia Supreme Court
cited 24 W. Ya. 288, 243, 244; 2 W. Ya. 756; 15 Am. Dec. 156; 22 Am. Dec. 178, 179; 1 Am. Dec. 468; 16 Am. Dec. 212; 10 Am. Dec. 491. cited 21 W. Va. 601; Code (1891)' c. 104, s. 12; 20 W. Ya. 629; Id. 398.
1Opinion of the Court
BRANNON, JUDGE :
T. B. Swann, in March, 1889, filed his bill in the Circuit Court of Kanawha county against William T. Thayer and others, and, the hill having been dismissed upon demurrer, he appealed to this Court. The bill states, in effect, that on April 28, 1861, he executed to Quarrier, trustee, a deed conveying two acres of land in Charleston, besides other lands, to secure to J. D. Young three thousand dollars payable three years after that date; that, anticipating that in the event of war he would be driven from home, and the house burned or confiscated, he said to <T. D. Young that…
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