Raines v. Watson
West Virginia Supreme Court
William H. Watson, surviving partner of the firm of Ayres $ Watson, merchants, brought suit- in July, 1857, injhe circuit court of Jackson county, against Abraham Raines, in covenant.
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William H. Watson, surviving partner of the firm of Ayres $ Watson, merchants, brought suit- in July, 1857, injhe circuit court of Jackson county, against Abraham Raines, in covenant. The declaration alleged that Watson had on the 7th day of March, 1857, instituted an action of debt in the circuit court of Jackson county, for a certain sum of money, against a firm known as Raines <$• Kester, and had sued out an attachment and had the same levied on the property of Thomas Raines, a member of the firm, and that the covenant, now sued on, between Abraham Raines and the plaintiff, witnessed that,…
1Opinion of the Court
BROWN, President.
The interpretation of the statute under consideration induces a review of the legislation on the *381subject of the Sabbath by the colony and State of Virginia, whence we derive the present law.
The first act was passed by the general assembly in 1623, and declares:
“That whosoever shall absent himself from divine service any Sunday, without an allowable excuse, shall forfeit a pound of tobacco, and he that absenteth himselfe a month shall forfeit fifty pounds of tobacco.’3 1 Henning’s Statute at Large, 123.
The next act was passed by the general assembly, 1629: “Aact VIII, It is…
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