Boggess v. Meredith
West Virginia Supreme Court
Appeal from a decree of the circuit court of the county of Upshur, rendered on the 21st day of September, 1866, in a cause in chancery«in said court then pending, wherein Henry Boggess was plaintiff and John S. Meredith and others were defendants, allowed upon the petition of said Meredith. Hon. R. Irvin, late judge of the sixth judicial circuit, rendered the decree appealed from.
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Appeal from a decree of the circuit court of the county of Upshur, rendered on the 21st day of September, 1866, in a cause in chancery«in said court then pending, wherein Henry Boggess was plaintiff and John S. Meredith and others were defendants, allowed upon the petition of said Meredith. Hon. R. Irvin, late judge of the sixth judicial circuit, rendered the decree appealed from. Green, President, furnishes the following statement of the case: Jonathan Furbee of the State of Delaware died about 1796 seized of a tract of land in Upshur county in this State, leaving two heirs, Nathaniel Furbee…
1Opinion of the Court
Green, President,
delivered the opinion of the Court:
The first-question for our consideration is: Are the parties claiming under Mary Jarrell entitled to any interest in any part of this tract of land of nine thousand acres? If not, the court below should have dismissed the bill. It is admitted that this land was patented to Jacob Baker, May 19, 1786, and conveyed by him October 21, 1788, to Jonathan Furbee; and on his death it descended to his two children, Nathaniel Furbee and Mary Furbee, afterwards Mary Jarrell, as his heirs, and that they continued joint-tenants of this land for upwards…
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