Legal Opinion

Rittenhouse v. Harman

West Virginia Supreme Court

Decided March 2, 1874PublishedCited by 9 opinions

An appeal by Othias Harman and Asa W. Thompson, from a decree of the circuit court of Wirt county, rendered on the 14th day of March, 1872, in a suit in chan-eery, therein pending, wherein William Rittenhouse and others were complainants and Othias Harman and others were respondents, all of whose names appear in the decision of the Court. The facts sufficiently appear in the opinion of Hoffman, Judge.

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An appeal by Othias Harman and Asa W. Thompson, from a decree of the circuit court of Wirt county, rendered on the 14th day of March, 1872, in a suit in chan-eery, therein pending, wherein William Rittenhouse and others were complainants and Othias Harman and others were respondents, all of whose names appear in the decision of the Court. The facts sufficiently appear in the opinion of Hoffman, Judge. The Hon. James M. Jackson, judge of said circuit court, presided at the hearing below.

1Opinion of the Court

HoffmaN, Judge :

It is necessary to state but a small part of what the record of this case contains, in order to develope the points decided.

*382la January, 1869, William Rittenhouse, C. D. Mor--rill, Benjamin Flint and B. P. Flint, sued out of the clerk’s office of the circuit court of the county of Wirt, a summons in chancery against Othias Harman, Daniel Dutsman, Thaddeus A. Mitchell, Jonathan Sherman, A. W. Thompson, Addison Pearson, George L. Wolfe, Edward L.Brockwalter, John J. Throckmorton, Samuel L. Wallace, Milton L. Clark, Mary Sifford and Lewis W. Sifford, her husband, John M. Snyder…

2Cited by9 opinions

  1. Delaplain v. ArmstrongWest Virginia Supreme Court · 1882
  2. Stewart v. StewartWest Virginia Supreme Court · 1894
  3. Reed v. McCloudWest Virginia Supreme Court · 1894
  4. Sheldon v. Armstead's Adm'rSupreme Court of Virginia · 1851
  5. McConaughy v. CamdenWest Virginia Supreme Court · 1881

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