Houston v. McCluney
West Virginia Supreme Court
The case is stated in the opinion of the Court. The Hon. Thayer Melvin, judge of the circnit court of Ohio county, presided at the hearing below.
1Opinion of the Court
Hoffman, Judge:
Matthew H. Houston, on the 24th day of October, 1868, sued out of the clerk’s office of the circuit court of the county of Ohio, a summons in chancery against Mary J..McCluney and Joseph H. Pendleton, and a separate summons against the latter, which were served on each of the defendants.
At October rules, 1868, the complainant filed his bill, in which he alleges:
*137That in the year 1852, he and Pendleton jointly purchased a part of a lot, numbered 1G in square 2 in the city of Wheeling: That they afterwards determined to improve the property with a view of rendering it productive:…
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