Williamson v. Russell
West Virginia Supreme Court
Appeal from and supersedeas to an order of the circuit court of thecounty of Tyler pronounced on the 4th day of April, 1879, in a cause in said court then pending, wherein Theodore A. Williamson was plaintiff, and Joshua Russell and others were defendants, allowed upon the petition of said Williamson. , Hon. James M, Jackson, judge of the fifth judicial circuit, made the order appealed from.
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Appeal from and supersedeas to an order of the circuit court of thecounty of Tyler pronounced on the 4th day of April, 1879, in a cause in said court then pending, wherein Theodore A. Williamson was plaintiff, and Joshua Russell and others were defendants, allowed upon the petition of said Williamson. , Hon. James M, Jackson, judge of the fifth judicial circuit, made the order appealed from. GbeeN, Judge, furnishes the following statement of the ‘cáse: In 1868 Elbert H. Williamson owned a tract of land of forty-four acres on the Ohio river in Tyler county, and conveyed one acre of it to…
1Judgment of the CourtGreek, Judge
The first enquiry is, whether a court of chancery has any jurisdiction in a case of this character, and whether the circuit court ought not to have declined to interpose and ought not to have left the plaintiff to seek his redress in a common law court. The facts, so far as they affect this jurisdictional question, are simply these : The county court in a suit in chancery, in which the plaintiff in this cause was not a party, ordered the sale of the land of William W. Williamson to satisfy a lien upon it; the sale was made, and Russell purchased the land, and the sale was confirmed; the…
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