Thompson's Exors. v. Boggs
West Virginia Supreme Court
Appeal, operating as a supersedeas, granted on the petition of the defendants below, from a judgment of the circuit court of "Wood county, rendered on the 27 th day of March, 1873, in a suit therein pending, wherein Edward Tracewell and M. P. Amiss, executors of James Thompson, deceased, who sued for the use and benefit of Edward Tracewell, were plaintiffs, and F. C. Boggs and J. H. Robinson, defendants.
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Appeal, operating as a supersedeas, granted on the petition of the defendants below, from a judgment of the circuit court of "Wood county, rendered on the 27 th day of March, 1873, in a suit therein pending, wherein Edward Tracewell and M. P. Amiss, executors of James Thompson, deceased, who sued for the use and benefit of Edward Tracewell, were plaintiffs, and F. C. Boggs and J. H. Robinson, defendants. The following is a copy of the declaration filed in the suit: “Edward Tracewell and M. P. Amiss,executors of James Thompson, deceased, who sue for the use of Edward Tracewell, complain of F.…
1Opinion of the Court
Haymond, President :
This is an action of debt. The writ demands of defendants $4,845 debt, and damages, $20. The declaration, in the early part thereof, demands of the defendants the same amount of debt as the writ, and the damages are stated at the close of the declaration at $20. The declaration, after demanding the said amount of debt, then proceeds to count first, in the usual form, upon a single bill alleged to be made by the defendants to the plaintiffs on the 16th day of October, 1865, payable six months after date, for $2,420.50, with interest from date, “being part of the money above…
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