York v. Meek

Lively, Judge:

This litigation originated in a controversy between the- administrator of John Y. York, deceased, and Ernest Meek, as to whether a deed executed by John Y. York and wife to Ernest Meek on May 3, 1917, conveying to- the latter in fee a farm on the waters of .Lost creek in Wayne county, was a mortgage or an absolute deed. After this court had decided that particular point'of the controversy in favor of York’s administrator in May, 1922, — see York, Admr. v. Ernest Meek, 91 W. Va. 106, 112 S. E. 404 — the lower court entered a decree declaring the deed to be a mortgage, and the…