Hoult v. Donahue
West Virginia Supreme Court
Appeal from and supersedeas to a decree of the circuit court of the county of Doddridge rendered on the 27th day of July, 1881, in a cause in said court then pending, wherein A. E. Hoult and others were plaintiffs, and Michael Donahue and others were defendants, allowed npon the petition of said plaintiffs. Hon. Thomas J. Stealey, judge of the fourth judicial circuit, rendered the decree appealed from.
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Appeal from and supersedeas to a decree of the circuit court of the county of Doddridge rendered on the 27th day of July, 1881, in a cause in said court then pending, wherein A. E. Hoult and others were plaintiffs, and Michael Donahue and others were defendants, allowed npon the petition of said plaintiffs. Hon. Thomas J. Stealey, judge of the fourth judicial circuit, rendered the decree appealed from. Snyder, Judge, furnishes the following statement of the ease: Hnder a decree of the circuit court of Lewis county,Edwin Maxwell as commissioner of said court, on 26th day of February, 1855,…
1Judgment of the CourtSnyder, Judge
The circuit court having declined to dissolve the injunction as to the fifteen and one half acres first purchased by the appellant, Samuel T. Sherwood, the controversy in this Court is narrowed to the remaining forty-eight and one half acres of the sixty-four acres of said appellant and the twenty-two and one half acres of the appellants, W. E. & A. E. IIoult. The Iloults acquired a complete equitable title to the said twenty-two and one-half acres before any equity in favor of any of the appellees attached to the land, and in that regard they are in a better situation than the appellant,…
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