St. Marys v. Woods
West Virginia Supreme Court
Application by the City of St. Marys and others for a writ' of prohibition to Homer B, Woods, Judge, and others.
1Opinion of the Court
BRANNON, Judge :
By chapter 147, Acts of 1901, the Legislature enacted a charter for the City of St. Marys. In April, 1909, R. W. Douglass and four other freeholders of that city presented to the circuit court of Pleasants county their petition asking that court to alter, change and amend'the said charter in certain respects set forth in the petition, which petition the court received, and directed publication of the object of the petition as directed by section 1896, Code of 1906. In May, 1909, the City of St. Marys, John Schanwecker and four others, presented to this Court a petition praying…
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