Cecil v. Clark
West Virginia Supreme Court
Appeal from Circuit Court, Summers County. Actions by W. P. Cecil and others and J. R. Hall and others, respectively, against E. W. Clark and others, trustees of Flat Top Coal Land Association. These suits were united, and tried together. From a judgment for plaintiffs, defendants appeal.
1Opinion of the Court
Brannon, President:
By patent, in 1851, Virginia granted to Henley Chapman and David Hall a tract of one thousand, seven hundred and fifty acres of land lying in Mercer and Tazewell counties, “the greater part being in Mercer.” Later the patentees conveyed eight hundred and twenty-five acres of it to Per-due, leaving nine hundred and twenty-five acres, but called in these cases eight hundred and fifty acres. The deed recited that the land conveyed to Perdue was all that part of the original survey lying in Mercer; but it gave metes and bounds not certainly telling whether it took all land in…
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