111 W. Va. 186 - Brown v. Cabell’s Empirical Analysis
1931
Citation profile
7 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 7 later decisions — most recently March 1976
7 state decisions
Later decisions citing this case, by decade. The current decade is in progress, and our corpus holds fewer opinions from the most recent years, so the latest bars are undercounted — not a real decline.
Relationships
Relies on Wilson v. Powers · Bell v. McDonald · Paulson v. Boyd · Barr Cash & Package Carrier Co. v. Brooks-Ozan Mercantile Co. · Bartholomew v. Fell
Most-quoted passages
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“Plaintiff contends, and so alleges in his bill, that all of the above writings were executed and delivered under an agreement or understanding between himself, Cabell, and the bank; that the purchase of the Shrewsbury lot was dependent upon the procurement of the `long-time' loan. Defendants' counter is that the allegations to the effect that the several writings were signed and delivered, and that Brown went upon the property and began to improve it, are diametrically opposed to plaintiff's theory, in that they show that the title passed and the estate vested; and that the alleged agreement or understanding is at best only a condition subsequent, which should appear on the face of the pleadings to be a part of the deed.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
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