Legal Opinion

Ludington v. Renick

West Virginia Supreme Court

Decided February 25, 1874PublishedCited by 22 opinions

This was an appeal taken from a decree of the circuit court of Greenbrier county, rendered on the 19th day of April, 1871, in three several suits in chancery, then pending in said court, which were consolidated and brought on to be heard together. In the first, Samuel C. Ludington was complainant, and Benjamin F. Eenick and Benjamin F. Harlow, respondents.

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This was an appeal taken from a decree of the circuit court of Greenbrier county, rendered on the 19th day of April, 1871, in three several suits in chancery, then pending in said court, which were consolidated and brought on to be heard together. In the first, Samuel C. Ludington was complainant, and Benjamin F. Eenick and Benjamin F. Harlow, respondents. In the second the said Ludington was complainant, and Calvin B. Eenick, Joseph H. Corrcll, administrator of "William Eenick, deceased, Hiram Scott, administrator of Thomas B. Eenick, deceased, Mary E. Eon-ick, Esther Eenick and Thomas Q,.…

1Opinion of the Court

Paull, Judge :

In February, 1868, the plaintiff filed his bill in the circuit court of Greenbrier county, praying for the rescission of a contract made between himself and the defendant Benjamin F. Beniek. The bill recites that in two suits in equity pending in said circuit court, the one prosecuted by the plaintiff and the other by John W. Dunn, (the two suits having been consolidated,) a decree was rendered at the-term, 1867, directing certain lands, formerly the estate of Thomas B. Beniek, deceased, to be sold for the payment of certain debts due to the plaintiff, to said Dunn, and other…

2Cited by22 opinions

  1. Farnsworth v. DuffnerSupreme Court of the United States · 1891
  2. Engeman v. TaylorWest Virginia Supreme Court · 1899
  3. Crocker v. ManleyIllinois Supreme Court · 1896
  4. Clark v. ReederSupreme Court of the United States · 1895
  5. Fitzhugh v. DavisSupreme Court of Arkansas · 1885

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