Central Land Company v. Laidley
Supreme Court of the United States
ERROR TO THE SUPREME COURT OF APPEALS OF THE STATE OF WEST VIRGINIA. This was an action of ejectment, brought in April, 1882, in the circuit court of Cabell County, in the State of West Virginia, by John B. Laidley against the Central Land Company of West Virginia, to recover a tract of land in that State. The material facts were as follows: . Both parties claimed title under Sarah H. Cl. Pennybacker.
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ERROR TO THE SUPREME COURT OF APPEALS OF THE STATE OF WEST VIRGINIA. This was an action of ejectment, brought in April, 1882, in the circuit court of Cabell County, in the State of West Virginia, by John B. Laidley against the Central Land Company of West Virginia, to recover a tract of land in that State. The material facts were as follows: . Both parties claimed title under Sarah H. Cl. Pennybacker. On February 25, 1870, she, being the owner of the tract, and the wife of John M. Pennybacker, executed, with her husband,, a ’deed purporting to convey the land to O. P. Huntington. That'deed…
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Geay
The questions upon the merits of this case, discussed at length by counsel, were whether the Supreme Court of Appeals of West Yirginia rightly construed the provision of the Code of that State of 1868, which was, and was admitted to be, in all material respects, a reenactment of the corresponding provision of the Code of Yirginia of 1860, prescribing the form of acknowledgment by a married woman of a deed of real estate; and whether the court below gave a construction of that provision less favorable to the validity of such a deed, than had been given to it by its own earlier dedisions, and…
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