Downs v. Downs
West Virginia Supreme Court
Appeal from Circuit Court, Doddridge County. Action by Austin Downs against Effa L. Downs and others. Prom a decree cancelling deed as a cloud on plaintiff’s title, the defendants appeal.
1Opinion of the Court
Lynch, Judge:
The decree reviewed upon this appeal cancelled a deed as a cloud upon plaintiff’s title to an undivided moiety of a tract of 100 acres of land owned by plaintiff in Doddridge County, on which he has resided since he acquired it by purchase in 1877. The grantee, John S. Downs, is his son, and the defendants are the son’s widow and heirs at law, he having' died intestate before the institution of this suit.
The deed bears the date of September 27, 1893, as do also the certificate of acknowledgment and the memorandum of the clerk admitting it to record in the proper office of…
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