Atkinson v. Plumb

Dent, Judge :

The history of the case is as follows: Some time in the 79’s, D. S. Plumb, a mechanic, — a house painter and paper hanger, — with little capital, but lots of pluck, as it after-wards turned out, began business as a green grocer in a little old frame building down on Ann street, in the city of Parkersburg; his wife, Mary Jane Plumb, at about the same time running a restaurant, both working together for mutual benefit,. — not an uncommon occurrence for husband and wife; not a thing to arouse unwarranted suspicion or to create alarm. Being good Baptists, they made the *627acquaintance…