Bartlett v. Petty

McGinnis, Judge:

This case is certified here by the judge of the circuit court of Roane county on the question of whether or not he properly sustained the defendants’ demurrer to plaintiffs’ bill.

In 1903 James C. Bartlett made a deed to his wife Mary S. Bartlett, conveying a small lot of land in Spencer District, Roane county, West Virginia, now situate in the city of Spencer, the material parts of which deed are as follows: “This deed made this the 2d day of Nov. 1903 between Jas. C. Bartlett of the County of Roane and State of West Virginia of the first part and Mary S. Bartlett of the…