Cutright v. Sexton

Litz, Judge:

The relators, P. E. Outright and Ithiel Neely, as tenants in common, and the respondent, J. W. • Sexton, own adjoining lands in Upshur County. The respondent Sexton recovered judgment against relators before the respondent, John B. Neff, a justice -of the peace, for $16.33, as the amount to be paid by relators of the cost of repairing a division fence between the properties. Thereafter, upon a petition, relators obtained from the Circuit Court of Upshur County a rule against the respondents, requiring them to show cause why a writ of prohibition should not be awarded prohibiting…