State v. Musgrave

Lively, PRESIDENT:

This is a suit by the state, at the instance of commissioner of school lands, to sell the surface, and oil and gas royalties thereunder, of a tract of about 70 acres of land in Monongalia county, purchased by the state at a sale made by the sheriff on January 3, 1928, for taxes delinquent for the year 1925, standing on the land books in the name of John T. Musgrave.

John T. Musgrave died testate prior to 1925, and willed the property to defendant Anarah Musgrave, his wife, for her life, remainder in fee to defendants Lawrence S. Musgrave and William Musgrave, his sons.

On…