Cook v. Lasher
Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit
In Error to the Circuit Court of the United States for the District of West Virginia. This was a bill by George T. Laslier and others against L. B. Cook and others to annul certain deeds made by the commissioner of school lands for Wyoming county, W. Va. The circuit court made a decree in accordance with the prayer of the bill, and the defendants hare appealed.
1Opinion of the Court
PAUL, District Judge.
This is an appeal from a decree of the circuit court of the United States for the district of West Virginia. The suit was brought by the plaintiffs below to set, aside and annul *702certain deeds made to the appellants by W. B. McClure, commissioner of school lands for Wyoming county, W. Va., conveying certain lands claimed by the plaintiffs. These lands were sold by said McClure, commissioner of school lands, under an order of the circuit court of Wyoming county, in a proceeding in that court in the name of said commissioner of school lands against a tract of land of 480,000…
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