Burlew v. Quarrier
West Virginia Supreme Court
Appeal from and supersedeas to a decree of the circuit court of the county of Kanawha rendered on the 15th day of June, 1874, in a suit in chancery in said court then pending, wherein Abraham Burlew, trustee, was plaintiff and Joel S. Quarrier and others were defendants, allowed upon the petition of said Burlew and P. W. Morgan, Charity Vance and George W. Hutton. Hon. Joseph Smith, judge of the seventh 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 Kanawha rendered on the 15th day of June, 1874, in a suit in chancery in said court then pending, wherein Abraham Burlew, trustee, was plaintiff and Joel S. Quarrier and others were defendants, allowed upon the petition of said Burlew and P. W. Morgan, Charity Vance and George W. Hutton. Hon. Joseph Smith, judge of the seventh judicial circuit, rendered the decree appealed from. Haymond, Judge, furnishes the following statement of the case: In May, 1872, the plaintiff filed his bill in the circuit court of Kanawha…
1Opinion of the CourtHaymond, Judge
The appellant has assigned in his said petition the following as errors in the said decree, to-wit-: .
“1st. That said court refused to allow the petition of A. Burlew, trustee, and the petition of Charity Vance to be filed in the cause, by which petitions the court was invoked to allow the complainant to amend his bill by transposing the name of Charity Vance from that of defendant to that of complainant on the record, and refused to allow said bill tobe amended. 2d. That the court refused to allow the complainant to amend his bill by transposing the name of P. W. Morgan, administrator, from…
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