Queen v. Man Hospital, Inc.

Haymond, Judge:

This proceeding by attachment, in which the plaintiff obtained a lien upon personal property of the defendant, for rent to accrue during the period of one year from September 1, 1944, under a written lease between the parties upon improved real estate in' the town of Man, Logan County, West Virginia, owned by the plaintiff and, on August 9, 1944, occupied and used by the defendant as a hospital, was instituted before a justice of the peace of that county on that day, under Section 17, Article 6, Chapter 37 of the Code, 1931.

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