Whitehouse v. Jones
West Virginia Supreme Court
Appeal from Circuit Court, Putnam County. Bill by W. F. Whitehouse and others against B,. A. Jones and others. Decree for plaintiffs, and defendant Mary Patton Hudson appeals.
1Opinion of the Court
Brannon, Judge:
A grant from the State of Virginia, 3rd March, 1796, to Samuel Hollingsworth for 100,000 acres of land in Kanawha county. Title under this grant came to Mathias Bruen, and at his death it was partitioned among his devisees, the partition deeds dating May 16, 1850, under the decree. One of the lots in this partition was of 2,500 acres, in Putnam county, which came to the ownership of the plaintiffs in this suit, the Whitehouses. The Hollingsworth grant excludes three prior grants of tracts of 300, 400 and 500 acres, and in the assignment of said 2,500 acre tract in said…
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