Cross v. W. Va. Cent. & Pa. R'y Co.
West Virginia Supreme Court
cited 17 W. Va. 620; Id. 396; 99 17. S.624; 13 Otto 480; Code, c. 52, ss. 18, 20 ; Id. c. 124, ss. 2, 7, 13 ; Id., c. 54, ss. 24, 36, 37, 40, 67, 70 ; 3 Key. 81; 27 W. Va. 762; 7 Pet. 252; 2 Pet. 556 ; 3 Wheat. 591; 9 Wheat. 738; 2 Madd. Oh’y 142 ; 7 Wall. 425 ; 18 Wall. 391; 113 IT. S. 465 ; 15 Ohio St. 21; 22 Ohio St. 411; 132 U. S. 75 ; 2 Mor. Corp. 1095 ; 15 Wall. 478, 498; 13 Wall. 214; Tayl. Priv. Corp. § 499 ; Cool. Const.
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cited 17 W. Va. 620; Id. 396; 99 17. S.624; 13 Otto 480; Code, c. 52, ss. 18, 20 ; Id. c. 124, ss. 2, 7, 13 ; Id., c. 54, ss. 24, 36, 37, 40, 67, 70 ; 3 Key. 81; 27 W. Va. 762; 7 Pet. 252; 2 Pet. 556 ; 3 Wheat. 591; 9 Wheat. 738; 2 Madd. Oh’y 142 ; 7 Wall. 425 ; 18 Wall. 391; 113 IT. S. 465 ; 15 Ohio St. 21; 22 Ohio St. 411; 132 U. S. 75 ; 2 Mor. Corp. 1095 ; 15 Wall. 478, 498; 13 Wall. 214; Tayl. Priv. Corp. § 499 ; Cool. Const. Lim. §§ 151, 152; 12 Mass. 555-563; 8 W. Va. 74, 87; Id. 720, 730-733; 18 Graft. 300; 26 W. Va. 257; Const. Art. VI, s. 30 ; 17 Wall. 425; 26 W. Va. 62-75; 7 W. Va.…
1Opinion of the Court
Holt, Judge :
The relator, W. Irvine Cross, claiming to have been duly elected by the cumulative system of voting one of the board of directors of the railway company for the year commencing on the 27th January, 1891, and that he is unlawfully kept out of his office by one T. B. Davis, acting at *176the instance and mider the advice of the railway company, did on the 11th February, 1891, sue out of this court this alternative writ of mandamus against the company, T. B. Davis, and others, to show cause why the peremptory writ of mandamus prayed for to receive and recognize him as a member of such…
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