Legal Question in Real Estate Law in West Virginia

Re: No recorded deed for landed that was inherited.

What would your case against your other two apparent co-tenants in common title holders be for? Losing the original deed? Not hardly.

You say that you inherited the property from a friend over a year ago but make no reference to a will or the probate of such will. If the will was probated(or is in the process of being so), and you were devised the property that you now claim, then the will's executor should have completed and filed an executory deed which would've invested you with legal title to the land. However, if the executor determined that

in enumerating all of the various assets in the

deceased's estate, that in fact there was not sufficient evidence to indicate that the land you have referenced in fact belonged to the deceased and therefore should have been included in the estate, then no such executory deed would have been completed and filed giving you legal title.

Rather than looking to your co-tenancy in common title holders, you should(in my view) be talking with the executor of the deceased's estate(assuming it was some other person other than yourself)and probably with a lawyer who is knowledgeable regarding real property and probate matters and who practices in the area where this disputed land is located and who should be able to advise you as to your best course of action.