Pettry v. Hedrick

Fox, President:

Fred Pettry prosecutes this writ of error to a judgment of the Circuit Court of Raleigh County, entered against him on a directed verdict, in an action at law in which he was plaintiff and G. C. Hedrick defendant. The action of the court was based upon its view of the force and effect of a judgment entered in an action before a justice, in which D. C. Wade, Trustee, was plaintiff and Fred Pettry and May Pettry, his wife, were defendants.

This case was once before this Court on certification, Pettry v. Hedrick, 123 W. Va. 107, 13 S. E. (2d) 401. The trial was had on plaintiff’s…