Battin v. Woods

Johnson, President :

In April 1882 the plaintiff filed his bill in the circuit court of Ritchie, in which he alleged that in 1864 during the great oil excitement of West Virginia a number of parties bought from one Christopher Hobden a tract of 1,250 awes of land for the sum of $50,000; that the conveyance was made to the *59plaintiff and Henry Holdridge now deceased; that after-wards the said grantees, to whom the land had been granted in fee, carrying out the true intention of the purchasers made their, certaiu declaration of trust in due . and proper form, showing that they held the said, land…