Provident Life & Trust Co. v. Wood

Meredith, President :

Defendant appeals from a decree entered July 17, 1923, providing for the sale of all the merchantable timber 16 inches and up in diameter on two tracts of land in Mingo County, aggregating about 9400 acres.

On October 7, 1914, Provident Life & Trust Company of Philadelphia and Edward R. Wood, Jr., as Executors and Trustees under the last will and testament of Stuart Wood, deceased, as plaintiffs, filed their original bill in which they allege that Stuart Wood died March 2, 1914; that at that time he was the holder of the legal title to 107 tracts of land, aggregating…