Davis v. Ellis
West Virginia Supreme Court
I. — On the demurrer. — 13 Am. & Eng. Ency. Law 1069 and notes; 1 Sto. Eq. Jur. 92,93; 1 Eonb. Eq. c. 1, § 3, p. 33; 2 Ind. 474; 32 Ind. 142; 1 Ear.
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I. — On the demurrer. — 13 Am. & Eng. Ency. Law 1069 and notes; 1 Sto. Eq. Jur. 92,93; 1 Eonb. Eq. c. 1, § 3, p. 33; 2 Ind. 474; 32 Ind. 142; 1 Ear. Ch’y Pr. § 104. II. — As to incompetency of witnesses, Emma Davis and Thornton Ellis, as to any transactions and communications with the deceased, Malone Ellis. — 25 W. Va. 251; 32 W. Va. 14. III. — The proof must correspond with the allegations of the hill. —25 W. Va. 830 ; 5 W. Va.135; 19 W. Va. 360-64; 11 W. Va. 217. IV. — As to delivery of deed. — 1 Dev. on Deeds, 282; 37 W. Va. 725; 6 W. Va. 121; 2 Gratt. 394; 10 Mass. 446; 30 Wis. 644; 6…
1Opinion of the Court
Dent, Judqe :
On the 5th day of January, 1891, Felix Davis filed a bill in chancery in the Circuit Court of Putman county against *228Lizzie Ellis, widow and devisee, and the many heirs at law, of Malone Ellis, deceased, for the purpose of establishing an alleged deed claimed to have been made by said Malone Ellis to the plaintiff on the-day of--,1887, for two tracts of land, one containing sixteen acres and the other one hundred and niuety acres, which was afterwards lost and could not be found. Lizzie Ellis, defendant, appeared, and demurred to said bill, and filed her answer, admitting that,…
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