Legal Opinion

Price v. City of Moundsville

West Virginia Supreme Court

Decided April 28, 1897PublishedCited by 12 opinions

Appeal from Circuit Court, Marshall County. Bill by B. W. Price and A. Tomlinson against the city of Moundsville and others. Decree for defendants, and plaintiffs appeal.

1Opinion of the Court

Dent, Judge :

B. W. Price and A. Tomlinson, citizens and tax payers of the county of Marshall, appeal from the order of the Circuit ■ Court, of said county dissolving an injunction awarded them against the city of Moundsville and its officers. The question involved is the constitutionality of the act of the legislature amendatory to the charter of said city, passed on the 9th day of January, 1895. The objections to the enactment are: First, that the title'thereof, as passed by the two branches of the legislature, was so materially variant as to make a different enactment by each house, and…

2Cases cited5 opinions

  1. Field v. ClarkSupreme Court of the United States · 1892
  2. Spangler v. JacobyIllinois Supreme Court · 1853
  3. Osburn v. StaleyWest Virginia Supreme Court · 1871
  4. State ex rel. Attorney General v. FrancisSupreme Court of Kansas · 1882
  5. Carr v. . CokeSupreme Court of North Carolina · 1895

3Cited by12 opinions

  1. State Ex Rel. State Building Commission v. BaileyWest Virginia Supreme Court · 1966
  2. State v. EastonWest Virginia Supreme Court · 1998
  3. State v. HestonWest Virginia Supreme Court · 1952
  4. Mechanics Building & Loan Ass'n v. CoffmanSupreme Court of Arkansas · 1913
  5. State Ex Rel. Armbrecht v. ThornburgWest Virginia Supreme Court · 1952

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