Whitham v. Sayers
West Virginia Supreme Court
Appeal from a decree of the circuit court of Ritchie ■county, pronounced on the twenty-fourth day of October, 1873, in a suit in equity then therein pending, in which P. Whitham, the appellant, was complainant, and William Sayers, M. M. Hitcheox and T. J. Rawson were ■defendants. The facts are set forth in the opinion of the Court. Hon. C. J. Stuart, Judge of said circuit court, presided ■at the hearing beloiv.
1Opinion of the Court
Green, Judge :
P. Whitham filed his bill in the circuit court of Ritchie county, in October, 1872, against William Sayers, M. *672Hitchcox and T. J. Rawson, the object of which was to have declared nail and void, a deed (rom the recorder of Ritchie county to M. M. Hitchcox and T. J. Rawson, dated May 17, 1871, of a tract of land in said county of five hundred acres, which they had purchased on September 10, 1867, at a public sale, by the sheriff of that county, of lands delinquent for the non-payment of taxes, and to enjoin the defendant, Sayers, who claimed under them, from cutting timber and…
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