Mann's Ex'rs v. Robinson
West Virginia Supreme Court
Appeal from and supersedeas to a decree of the circuit court of the county of Greenbrier, rendered on the 11th day of November, 1879, in a cause in said court then pending, wherein William T. Mann’s executors were plaintiff’s, and Robert Robinson and others were defendants, allowed upon the peti tion of said executors. Hon. Homer A. Holt, judge of the eighth judicial circuit, pronounced the decree appealed from.
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Appeal from and supersedeas to a decree of the circuit court of the county of Greenbrier, rendered on the 11th day of November, 1879, in a cause in said court then pending, wherein William T. Mann’s executors were plaintiff’s, and Robert Robinson and others were defendants, allowed upon the peti tion of said executors. Hon. Homer A. Holt, judge of the eighth judicial circuit, pronounced the decree appealed from. Green, Judge, furnishes the following statement of the case : On April 25, 1868, Mark L. Spotts, trustee, conveyed to John A. Hunter and Wm. T. Mann a tract of land in Green-brier…
1Judgment of the CourtGreek, Judge
The only question involved in this ease is: Had Henry F. Hunter under the circumstances, which the record shows existed, under the authority conferred by William T. Mann on him by the paper dated March 4, 1863, a right to receive in the manner, in which he did, payment of the five bonds executed to him by Robert Robinson on March 2, 1863, for the purchase of the tract of land of one hundred and sixty acres owned jointly by Mann and Hunter and of the other tracts of land named in the agreement between Hunter and Robinson of date March 2, 1863? There was, it is true, an effort made to prove,…
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