Koen v. Bartlett
West Virginia Supreme Court
I.— Construction of Deeds.—2 Lomax Digest, top paging 253; 1 Chitty on Contracts (16th Am. Ed.) 105 note, s. 106 note a, 107 note c, 117 note y, 117 note x, 117 Ü. S. 437; 19 W. Va. 483; 26 W. Ya. 469. II.— The rule that a deed is to be construed most strongly against the grantor is seldom to be relied upon.—1 Chitty on Contracts (16th Am. Ed.) 136, 137 and 138; 2 Parsons on Contracts, 506 et seq. and notes.
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I.— Construction of Deeds.—2 Lomax Digest, top paging 253; 1 Chitty on Contracts (16th Am. Ed.) 105 note, s. 106 note a, 107 note c, 117 note y, 117 note x, 117 Ü. S. 437; 19 W. Va. 483; 26 W. Ya. 469. II.— The rule that a deed is to be construed most strongly against the grantor is seldom to be relied upon.—1 Chitty on Contracts (16th Am. Ed.) 136, 137 and 138; 2 Parsons on Contracts, 506 et seq. and notes. III.— The life estate, of Elijah Kearns is without impeachment for waste.—69 Mich. 259; 11 East. 220; 33 N. II. 18; 2 Minor’s Inst. 100; (75 Eng. C. L. 122); 2 B. & Ad. 437. IY.— The life…
1Opinion of the Court
Holt, President:
P. W. Bartlett and H. P. Brand, appellants on appeal from a final decree entered by the Circuit Court of Marion county on the 26th day of May, 1894, giving Koen the oil in question, as against Bartlett and Brand, the adverse claimants.
On the 19th day of September, 1892, defendant Elijah Kerns was the owner in fee simple and occupant of a tract of land of seventy five acres situate in Marion county, on Whetstone run, within the productive part of the Mannington oil field, as shown by the event. On that day he executed to C. S. Nay a lease for that part north of the county road,…
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