Wood v. Browning
Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit
In Error to the Circuit Court of the United States for the Southern District of West Virginia, at Charleston. Action by Stuart Wood and others against Ballard Preston Browning and others. Judgment for defendants, and plaintiff Wood brings error. This action was instituted in the Circuit Court of the United States for the Southern District of West Virginia.
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In Error to the Circuit Court of the United States for the Southern District of West Virginia, at Charleston. Action by Stuart Wood and others against Ballard Preston Browning and others. Judgment for defendants, and plaintiff Wood brings error. This action was instituted in the Circuit Court of the United States for the Southern District of West Virginia. The declaration contains three counts, in which Stuart Wood was the sole plaintiff in the first count, and George B. Harrison, Jr., and Martin Luther Kohler, trustees, and the said Stuart Wood were the plaintiffs in the other two counts.…
1Opinion of the CourtPritchard, Circuit Judge
(after stating the facts as above). The real controversy in this case centers around the action of the court below in instructing the jury as follows:
“The court instructs the jury that as it appears from the evidence that Stuart Wood, the sole plaintiff herein, was made a party to the chancery suit of U. B. Bnskirk v. John R. Browning et ah, in the circuit court of Bogan county. IV. Va., and that service of process in said suit: was duly accepted by his attorney, the decree of sale made in said suit, the saies made ihereunder, the decree of confirmation of such sales and the deeds made…
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