Sayers v. Burkhardt
Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit
Appeal from the Circuit Court of the United States for the Dislrict of West Virginia.
1Opinion of the Court
GOFF, Circuit Judge.
This is an appeal from a decree rendered on the 1st of September, 1896, by the circuit court of the United States for the district of West Virginia, by which it was held that the complainants below had title to the 17,850 acres of land mentioned in their bill; that the proceedings referred to therein, instituted in the circuit court of McDowell county, W. Va., by the defendant H. C. Auvil, as commissioner of school lands for that county, against a tract of 320,000 acres of land granted by the commonwealth of Virginia to Robert Morris by patent dated March 4, 1795 (and…
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