Bennett v. Interstate Cooperage Co.
West Virginia Supreme Court
Appeal from Circuit Court, Calhoun County. A suit by Sallie M. Bennett and others against the Inter-state Cooperage Company, and suits by Ursley J. Offut, by E. L. J. Smith, by Elliott Chenoweth, by H. E. Crawford, by Charles Laughlin, by R. B. Eisman, and by W. T. Crawford, against C. N. Snodgrass and others, in each of which "there was a decree for the plaintiffs, and the defendants appealed. The suits were considered together.
1Opinion of the Court
Ritz, President:
By these suits the plaintiffs seek to enjoin the defendants from cutting and removing any of the timber from a tract of '27000 acres of land situate in Braxton, Gilmer and Calhoun ■counties. They are controlled by the same legal principles, for which reason they will be considered together.
On the 11th of July, 1906, Louis Bennett, W. G. Bennett, •Gertrude B. Howell and Mary B. Bowie conveyed to the de*288fendant Interstate Cooperage Company all the timber on a. tract of a little more than 27000 acres of land situate in Braxton, Gilmer and Calhoun counties. This deed included by…
2Cases cited1 opinion
- Kunst v. MabieWest Virginia Supreme Court · 1913
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