Legal Opinion

Kersey v. Kersey

West Virginia Supreme Court

Decided March 23, 1915PublishedCited by 13 opinions

Appeal from Circuit Court, Mercer County. Suit by W. "W. Kersey against J. L. Kersey and others. From decree for plaintiff, the defendant named appeals.

1Opinion of the Court

Robinson, President:

By this suit two brothers are in contest over the ownership of a laundry. The plaintiff says that the plant and business is *71his. The defendant quite as insistently says that it belongs to him. Each denies that the other has any right. Yet the record plainly enough establishes that the claim of each is so broad as not to be just, and that the chancellor did not very far miss the mark of sound equity when he rendered a judgment herein not unlike the proverbial one of Solomon.

The object of the bill is to have the defendant enjoined from interfering with the plaintiff’s…

2Cases cited1 opinion

  1. Henderson v. HenrieWest Virginia Supreme Court · 1911

3Cited by13 opinions

  1. Patterson v. PattersonWest Virginia Supreme Court · 1981
  2. Kanawha Valley Bank v. FriendWest Virginia Supreme Court · 1979
  3. Annon v. LucasWest Virginia Supreme Court · 1971
  4. Laurie v. ThomasWest Virginia Supreme Court · 1982
  5. Marshall v. MarshallWest Virginia Supreme Court · 1980

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