Chapman v. Pittsburgh & Steubenville Railroad
West Virginia Supreme Court
Appeal from and supersedeas to a decree of the circuit court of the county of Brooke rendered on the 22d day of February, 1877, in three consolidated causes in said court then pending, in which G. M. Chapman was plaintiff and the Pittsburgh & Steubenville Railroad Company and others were defendants, allowed upon the petition of said company. Hon. Thayer Melvin, judge of the first judicial circuit, rendered the decree appealed from.
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Appeal from and supersedeas to a decree of the circuit court of the county of Brooke rendered on the 22d day of February, 1877, in three consolidated causes in said court then pending, in which G. M. Chapman was plaintiff and the Pittsburgh & Steubenville Railroad Company and others were defendants, allowed upon the petition of said company. Hon. Thayer Melvin, judge of the first judicial circuit, rendered the decree appealed from. Johnson, Judge, furnishes the following statement of the case: There are three suits consolidated in this record. On the 4th day of January, 1867, the plaintiff…
1Judgment of the CourtJohnson, Judge
This cause has given the Court much trouble; more to determine what questions ought not to be decided in the cause, than how to decide those which are manifestly proper for our decision. The record contains over four hundred and fifty printed pages, and nearly two hundred and fifty pages of printed, argument are filed.
The first question that will be considered is: Were the proper parties before the court ? It is insisted, that the Western Transportation Company ought to have been a party to suits Nos. 1 and 2. The interest of the said company was that *193of a lessee. It has been frequently held,…
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