Legal Opinion

Lee v. Feamster

West Virginia Supreme Court

Decided December 2, 1882PublishedCited by 12 opinions

A.ppea.1 from ami supersedeas to a decree of the circuit court of the county of Greenbrier, rendered on the 2d day of June, 1880, in a cause in said court then pending, wherein L. II. Lee & Bro. were plaintiffs, and John A. Feamster and others were defendants, allowed upon the petition of 3). J. Ford & Bon and James Withrow. Hon. Homer A. Holt, judge of the eighth judicial circuit, rendered the decree appealed from.

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A.ppea.1 from ami supersedeas to a decree of the circuit court of the county of Greenbrier, rendered on the 2d day of June, 1880, in a cause in said court then pending, wherein L. II. Lee & Bro. were plaintiffs, and John A. Feamster and others were defendants, allowed upon the petition of 3). J. Ford & Bon and James Withrow. Hon. Homer A. Holt, judge of the eighth judicial circuit, rendered the decree appealed from. The facts of the case are fully stated in the opinion of the Court. cited the following authorities: 10 Wheat. 362;’ 4 Pet. 205; 5 Leigh 65,438; 20 Iowa 678.; 47 Barb. 618; 32…

1Opinion of the Court

Johnson, President,

announced the opinion of the Court:

This is a suit in equity brought in the circuit court of Greenbrier county in March, 1878, to subject the lands of the defendant, John A. Feamster, to the payment of the liens thereon. The plaintiff and a number of the defendants were judgment-creditors, while the debts of a number of the defendants were secured by deeds of trust, of which Eeamster, as appears by the bill and exhibits, had executed two; one on the 27th day of September, 1877, to A. E. Mathews trustee, to secure Wm. K. Snyder the payment of a bond executed by said Feamster…

2Cases cited20 opinions

  1. De Wolf v. JohnsonSupreme Court of the United States · 1825
  2. Green v. KempMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1816
  3. Merchants Exchange National Bank v. Commercial Warehouse Co.New York Court of Appeals · 1872
  4. Wright v. BundyIndiana Supreme Court · 1858
  5. Inhabitants of Reading v. Inhabitants of WestonSupreme Court of Connecticut · 1829

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3Cited by12 opinions

  1. Bensimer v. FellWest Virginia Supreme Court · 1891
  2. Harper v. Building Ass'nWest Virginia Supreme Court · 1904
  3. McClaugherty v. CroftWest Virginia Supreme Court · 1897
  4. American Rubber Co. v. WilsonMissouri Court of Appeals · 1894
  5. Snyder v. Middle States Loan, Building & Construction Co.West Virginia Supreme Court · 1902

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