Maynard v. Shein

Lively, Judge :

This controversy is over the legal title to about 107 acres of land lying at the mouth of Lick Creek in Mingo County. The deed under which the parties claim was executed by Richard Maynard and wife to M. V. B. Maynard, his son, in the year 1870, and the parts material to the controversy are: “the parties of the first part hath this day devised, bargained and sold and by these presents doth bargain and sell unto the party of the second part for and in consideration of the sum of twenty-five dollars to be paid to Parta Step wife of Aaron Step by the first day of June 1871 and in…