Varney & Evans v. Hutchinson Lumber & Mfg. Co.
West Virginia Supreme Court
Error to Circuit Court, Mingo County. Assumpsit by Yarney & Evans against the Hutchinson Lumber & Manufacturing Company. Judgment for plaintiffs, which was thereafter set aside and a new trial awarded, and plaintiffs bring error.
1Opinion of the Court
Miller, Judge:
The writ, issued July 20, 1907, from Mingo county, returnable to August Bules, 1907, was directed to the sheriff of that county, and purported to summon “Hutchinson Lumber and Manufacturing Corporation” to answer the plaintiffs in an action of assumpsit, damages $1500. The return of the sheriff of Cabell county shows the writ was executed by him .on Hutchinson Lumber and M’f’g Co., July 22,190d, by delivering an office copy thereof to R. L. Hutchinson, attorney in fact at his place of residence in Cabell county. The declaration filed describes defendant as “Hutchinson Lumber &…
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