Miller v. Ahrens
U.S. Circuit Court for the District of Northern West Virginia
In Equity. On demurrer to amended bill. On January 9, 1907, a written opinion was-filed in this cause overruling defendants’ demurrers to the original bill and bill of revivor, and requiring defendants to answer. This opinion will be found in 150 Fed. 644, and fully sets forth the facts as presented by the original bill.
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In Equity. On demurrer to amended bill. On January 9, 1907, a written opinion was-filed in this cause overruling defendants’ demurrers to the original bill and bill of revivor, and requiring defendants to answer. This opinion will be found in 150 Fed. 644, and fully sets forth the facts as presented by the original bill. On April 4, 1907, the defendants filed their joint and separate answer to the original bill and bill of revivor, in which they admit that Frederick Fickey, ,Tr., was the owner in his lifetime of the 350 acres of land in Ritchie county; that lie made the oil and 'gas lease…
1Opinion of the CourtDayton, District Judge
(after stating the facts as above). In my opinion heretofore filed in this case passing upon the demurrer to the original bill (150 Fed. 644) I held that the devise to Woods, trustee, for the benefit of the First Spiritualist Church of Baltimore, a Maryland corporation, assuming it to be a religious organization, was absolutely void as being contrary to the public policy and to express constitutional and statutory provisions of this state; that under express statutory provision, the devise having failed, the legal title to the 350 acres in controversy passed, under the residuary clause of the…
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