Christian v. Vance
West Virginia Supreme Court
cited 1 Pom. Eq. Jur. § 885; 2 Id. § 839; Id. § 856; 52 Am. Dec. 212; 56 Am. Dec. 329; 73 Am. Dec. 250.
1Opinion of the Court
Dent, Judge:
In the Circuit Court of Logan county, at the July rules, 1890, Paren Christian filed his bill in chancery against John P. Vance et al., in which he alleges that in March, 1875, he purchased of IT. S. Hinchman, commissioner of school lands of said county, a tract of three hundred and seventy nine acres of land, but that said Vance had shortly afterwards, by fraudulent representation, obtained a deed for the land from the commissioner, and afterwards sold the land to defendant Avis, who had full knowledge of defendant Vance’s fraudulent conduct in procuring a deed, and prays that…
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