State v. Cheney

Brannon, President :

In 1895 the State filed its bill in chancery in the circuit court of Clay County, against M. A. Cheney .and’ others, to sell ten thousand acres of land as forfeited for nonentry for taxation, and the court decreed that the land had not been forfeited, and dismissed the bill, and the State appeals. On July 21, 1797, Virginia, by patent, granted to Jacob Skyles a tract described as containing thirty-two thousand and ninety-seven acres of land in Kanawha County; and after Nicholas County was formed, the land wasinit; and, after Clay County was formed, a quantity of ten…