Lamar's Ex'or v. Hale
Supreme Court of Virginia
Appeal from decree of circuit court of Carroll county, rendered October 18th, 1880, in suit of G. D. Lamar, executor and legatee of G. B. Lamar, deceased, complainant, against Fielden L. Hale, Norman Hale, Garland Hale, Samuel S. Clayton, James E. Clayton, James E. Tyson and others, defendants, instituted in 1877. Its history is this: In 1854 a mining partnership was formed for dealing in copper :mining rights and lands in Carroll and other counties in Virginia, under the…
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Appeal from decree of circuit court of Carroll county, rendered October 18th, 1880, in suit of G. D. Lamar, executor and legatee of G. B. Lamar, deceased, complainant, against Fielden L. Hale, Norman Hale, Garland Hale, Samuel S. Clayton, James E. Clayton, James E. Tyson and others, defendants, instituted in 1877. Its history is this: In 1854 a mining partnership was formed for dealing in copper :mining rights and lands in Carroll and other counties in Virginia, under the style of the “Meig’s County, Tennessee and Virginia Mining Company.” The company was never incorporated. Its members were…
1Opinion of the CourtRichardson, J.
The record shows, and in fact the decree complained of concedes that the mining partnership formed in 1854, and known as the “ Meigs County, Tennessee and Virginia Mining Company,” owned the several copper lands and mineral rights in the bill mentioned, and that the complainant’s testator, G. B. Lamar, deceased, regularly acquired several shares in the property of the company, and was recognized as a shareholder, and as such participated by proxy in at least two general meetings of the members in October, 1856, and paid by remittance to F. L. Hale, holder of six and a half shares, and the…
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