Vinal v. Gilman
West Virginia Supreme Court
'Writ- of error and supersedeas to a judgment of the circuit-court of the county of Wood, rendered on the 24th day of May, 1881, in an action at law in said court then pending, wherein John F. Vinal, special receiver, was plaintiff, and J. C. Gilman was defendant, allowed upon the petition of said Gilman. Hon. James M. Jackson, judge of the fifth judicial circuit rendered the judgment complained of.
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'Writ- of error and supersedeas to a judgment of the circuit-court of the county of Wood, rendered on the 24th day of May, 1881, in an action at law in said court then pending, wherein John F. Vinal, special receiver, was plaintiff, and J. C. Gilman was defendant, allowed upon the petition of said Gilman. Hon. James M. Jackson, judge of the fifth judicial circuit rendered the judgment complained of. Green, Judue, furnishes the following statement of the case: In 1879 John F. Vinal, receiver of the court in a certain case, brought an action of assumpsit against I. 0. Gilman in the circuit…
1Judgment of the CourtGreen, Judge
The main question in dispute before the jury on the trial of this case was, “whether or not the two tanks of one thousand barrels and eight hundred barrels respectively and the boiler at the Banner well were included in the property, which was turned over by Gilman and Shakely to B. G. Compton, as the agent and manager of the West Virginia Oil and Oil Land Company. The defendant Gilman insisting, that these items of property were not in point of fact so turned over, and the plaintiff insisting, that they were. To prove that they were not the defendant, Gilman, offered evidence tending to…
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