Legal Opinion

Warren v. Syme

West Virginia Supreme Court

Decided March 2, 1874PublishedCited by 31 opinions

Appeal by Uriah N. Warren and, Mary Ann, his wife, from a decree of the circuit court of Greenbrier county, dismissing complainant’s bill, rendered on the 28th day of April, 1871-, in a suit in chancery therein pending, wherein said Warren and wife were complainants and Samuel A. M. Syme, Renick R. Dickson, St. Clair Johnson, Mark L. Spotts and Mrs. Leonard were respondents. The other material facts appear in the opinion of the Court.

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Appeal by Uriah N. Warren and, Mary Ann, his wife, from a decree of the circuit court of Greenbrier county, dismissing complainant’s bill, rendered on the 28th day of April, 1871-, in a suit in chancery therein pending, wherein said Warren and wife were complainants and Samuel A. M. Syme, Renick R. Dickson, St. Clair Johnson, Mark L. Spotts and Mrs. Leonard were respondents. The other material facts appear in the opinion of the Court. The Hon. Henry L. Gillaspie, judge of the thirteenth judicial circuit, presided at the hearing below.

1Opinion of the Court

HOFFMAN, JlIBGE :

Bn September 1869, William H. Cliurcb and Uriah N. Warren and Mary Ann Warren, his wife, exhibited their bill in equity against Samuel A. M. Syme, Renick R. Dickson, St. Clair Johnson, Mark L. Spotts and Mrs. Leonard; in which the plaintiffs allege :

That, in October 1833, an article of agreement was entered into between W illiam S.Littlepage of the first part, and Cyrus Walker, Samuel B. Keenan, Edward Fife,, Thomas Welch, Calvin P. Plogshead and George Rapp of the second part, which was duly acknowledged and recorded; in which it was recited, that Littlepage had before…

2Cited by31 opinions

  1. Simmons Creek Coal Co. v. DoranSupreme Court of the United States · 1892
  2. Simpson v. EdmistonWest Virginia Supreme Court · 1884
  3. West Virginia Transportation Co. v. Ohio River Pipe Line Co.West Virginia Supreme Court · 1883
  4. State v. HarmanWest Virginia Supreme Court · 1905
  5. Bennett v. GreenSupreme Court of Georgia · 1923

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