Bell v. Bell
West Virginia Supreme Court
This cause was heard in Ohio county, and the. bill was 'filed at April rules, 1865. The matters arising on the question of the removal of the cause from the State to the Federal court is fully stated in the opinion of the judge.
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This cause was heard in Ohio county, and the. bill was 'filed at April rules, 1865. The matters arising on the question of the removal of the cause from the State to the Federal court is fully stated in the opinion of the judge. The bill charged that John Bell, the complainant, of Bel-ton, in Marshall county, being in bad health, was desirous of selling the tract of laud on which he resided, and appointed his brother, Samuel M. Bell, of Washington county, Pennsylvania, as his agent to find a purchaser for his land, and agreed to pay him 300 dollars for his trouble; that the defendant Samuel…
1Opinion of the Court
Brown, President.
This was a foreign attachment, under the statute, by the plaintiff, John Bell, against the Merchants’ and Mechanics’ Bank of Wheeling, and the absent defendant Samuel M. Bell, to attach in the hands of the bank some 28,700 dollars, due from said bank to said ab*191sent defendant. The process was executed on the bank and an order .of publication awarded and duly executed against the absent defendant.
In this state of the -case the absent defendant might appear at rules and do what was necessary to protect his interests. By the 13th section, chapter 151, Code of 1860, he might…
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