Ex parte Hunter
West Virginia Supreme Court
Andrew Hunter, Samuel Price, W. S. Summers, Samuel Miller and Caleb Boggess applied at tbe bar of this court, at the July Term, 1866, for admission to practice without being required to take the oath provided by the † act of the Legislature, passed February 14th, 1866. Some of the applicants produced pardons from the Exee-tive department of the Federal Government.
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Andrew Hunter, Samuel Price, W. S. Summers, Samuel Miller and Caleb Boggess applied at tbe bar of this court, at the July Term, 1866, for admission to practice without being required to take the oath provided by the † act of the Legislature, passed February 14th, 1866. Some of the applicants produced pardons from the Exee-tive department of the Federal Government. Judge JR,. L. Berkshire was a member of the court at that time, and in consequence of Judge Harrison’s illness, Judge Loomis, of the VI. circuit, was called to the bench. The matter was elaborately argued hy the parties, and by…
1Opinion of the Court
Broavn, President.
This is an application by the above named gentlemen to be admitted to practice as counsellors and attorneys at law in this court, upon taking the oath to support the constitution of the United States and of this State; but, without taking the oath prescribed by the act of February 14th, 1866, entitled “An act in relation to the oaths of attorneys at law.”
All of them had been regularly licensed and practicing lawyers in the State of Virginia antecedent to and at the breaking out of the rebellion, and all resident, then and now, Avithin the territory embraced in the State of…
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