West Virginia Transportation Co. v. Ohio River Pipe Line Co.
West Virginia Supreme Court
Gpeen, Judge, furnishes the following statement of the case: The West Virginia Transportation Company, a corporation chartered by several acts of the Legislature of West Virginia, on August 7, 1882, presented its bill of injunction to to the judge of the circuit court of Ritchie county, in which it alleged, that it was incorporated as an internal improvement company by three acts of the Legislature of West Virginia, passed respectively on February. 26, 1867, (Acts of 1867,…
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Gpeen, Judge, furnishes the following statement of the case: The West Virginia Transportation Company, a corporation chartered by several acts of the Legislature of West Virginia, on August 7, 1882, presented its bill of injunction to to the judge of the circuit court of Ritchie county, in which it alleged, that it was incorporated as an internal improvement company by three acts of the Legislature of West Virginia, passed respectively on February. 26, 1867, (Acts of 1867, chapter 95,) February 26,1868, (Acts of 1868, chapter 67,) and February 9, 1869, (Acts of 1869, chapter 10). .By its…
1Opinion of the Court
Green, Judge:
The real question involved in this case is: Should the courts at the instance of the "West Virginia Transportation Company enforce the grants and contracts made with it by E. Lj. Gale and wife dated respectively January 31, 1870, and October 23, 1873 ? These two contracts are identical in lan*612•guage, except that the first applied to lands in Ritchie county •and the. second to lands in Wood county adjoining. The first of these contracts is in the following language :
“We, the undersigned, for and in consideration of the sum of one dollar, receipt oí which is hereby acknowledged, do…
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