Thompson's Adm'r v. Catlett
West Virginia Supreme Court
Woods, Judge, furnishes the following statement of the ease: On January 19,1871, Joel McPherson and Samuel Thompson for the consideration of three thousand one'hundred and thirty-five dollars, by deed of that date, with covenant ot general warranty, conveyed to the defendants, Howell Fisher and-B,. H. Catlett, one undivided half of a tract of land in Greenbrier county containing six hundred and twenty acres, and also the whole of another tract of land in said county,…
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Woods, Judge, furnishes the following statement of the ease: On January 19,1871, Joel McPherson and Samuel Thompson for the consideration of three thousand one'hundred and thirty-five dollars, by deed of that date, with covenant ot general warranty, conveyed to the defendants, Howell Fisher and-B,. H. Catlett, one undivided half of a tract of land in Greenbrier county containing six hundred and twenty acres, and also the whole of another tract of land in said county, situated on the waters of the FTorth Fork of Anthony’s creek, a tributary of the Greenbrier river, adjoining the lands of Jacob…
1Opinion of the Court
Woods, Judge:
Two grounds of error are alleged by the appellants, viz: First, in allowing the defendants the abatement of eight hundred and seven dollars on account of the interlock of two hundred and sixty-nine acres between the Van Burén land and the seven hundred and thirty-five acre tract; and second, in allowing the defendants a credit for said sum of five hundred and eighty-seven dollars and seventy-two cents.
The plaintiffs in these causes are prosecuting a legal demand held by each of them, against the defendants, Fisher and Catlett, but having an equitable security, a vendor’s lien…
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