Woodwine v. Woodrum
West Virginia Supreme Court
Appeal from and supersedeas to two decrees of the circuit court of the county of Summers rendered respectively on the 20th day of September, 1879, and on the 19th day of April, 1880, in a cause in said court then pending wherein Charles C. Woodwine and wife were plaintiffs and Richard Woodrum, Houston L. Baber and Giles T. Lowry were defendants, allowed upon the petition of said Baber and Lowry.
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Appeal from and supersedeas to two decrees of the circuit court of the county of Summers rendered respectively on the 20th day of September, 1879, and on the 19th day of April, 1880, in a cause in said court then pending wherein Charles C. Woodwine and wife were plaintiffs and Richard Woodrum, Houston L. Baber and Giles T. Lowry were defendants, allowed upon the petition of said Baber and Lowry. Hon. Homer A. Holt, judge of the eighth judicial circuit rendered the decrees appealed from. Gbeen, Judge, furnishes the following statement of the case: On February 5, 1867, John Woodrum and wife in…
1Judgment of the CourtGreEN, Judge
The only question in this case is: Were the appellants, H. L. Baber aad G. L. Lowry, bound to see to the application of the purchase-money of the one hundred and eighty acres of land bought of Richard Woodrum, trustee, to the payment of the amounts due under the deed of February. 5, 1867, to the children of Hugh Woodrum, as they respectively attained the age of twenty-one years? The circuit court decided, that they were so bound, and that this land in the hands of the appellant, Baber, was liable to the payment of the several sums due to these children. By this deed their grandfather and…
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