Bryson v. McShane
West Virginia Supreme Court
Appeal irom Circuit Court, Tyler Comity. Bill by David and Anna Bryson against Mary MeSbane and others. Judgment for plaintiffs, and defendants appeal.
1Opinion of the Court
Dent, Judge:
David and Anna Bryson, husband and wife, sue Mary Mc-Shane and others in the circuit court of Tyler County to compel specific performance of a verbal contract with Margaret Henrietta, deceased.
The facts are as follows: Margaret Henrietta was an aged Irish woman, past sixty. She owned in her own right several tracts of land and a house and lot situated in Moundsville. On one of her tracts of land she resided in a little old smoke house near her dwelling house thereon. This smoke house was nine or ten feet square made out of heavy split rail timber with a roof laid on it. It nad no…
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