McMahon v. McClernan
West Virginia Supreme Court
Appeal from, and supersedeas to, a decree of the circuit court of Greenbrier county, rendered on the 30th day of June, 1875, in a cause in chancery in said court then pending, wherein Kdward McMahon and John R. Wills were plaintiffs, and James McClernan was defendant, granted upon the petition of the said plaintiffs. The facts sufficiently appear in the opinion of the Court.
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Appeal from, and supersedeas to, a decree of the circuit court of Greenbrier county, rendered on the 30th day of June, 1875, in a cause in chancery in said court then pending, wherein Kdward McMahon and John R. Wills were plaintiffs, and James McClernan was defendant, granted upon the petition of the said plaintiffs. The facts sufficiently appear in the opinion of the Court. Hon. Homer A. Holt, Judge of the eighth judicial circuit, presided at the hearing below. referred to the following anthorities: Whitesides v. Lafferty, 3 Humph., 150; Hydev. Easter, 4 Md., 80; Dunbar v. Barber, 14 Ohio,…
1Opinion of the CourtHaymoNd, Judge
On the 22d day of Peburary, 1871, the plaintiffs filed their bill in the circuit court of the county of Green-brier, against the defendant. The plaintiffs in their bill allege substantially that on the 13th day of May, 1870, they entered into an article of agreement with the defendant for the formation of a partnership which was known and did business under the firm name of Mc-Mahan & Co., for the purpose of putting Greenbrier river, or a part thereof, in navigable order for batteaux, extending also down New River so far as the said partners might think proper, and to build and place upon the…
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