Farrar v. Goodwin

Litz, Judge:

The plaintiff, Mrs. Amine L. Farrar, prosecutes this appeal from the decree of the Circuit Court of Cabell County dismissing her bill against Mary C. Goodwin, executrix, and Mary C. Goodwin, L. S. Bibb, Mary Bibb, Martha E. Bibb, and W. A. Bibb, devisees, under the will of R. A. Goodwin, deceased, seeking specific performance of an alleged parol gift of a lot of land situate in the city of Huntington.

Coming from Virginia in 1876, the deceased, R A. (commonly called “Captain”) Goodwin, established a residence in Huntington which was retained by him to the time of his death on May…