Webster v. Hurvitz

Maxwell, Judge:

This is an action in detinue.

In the circuit court of Raleigh County, Norma Hurvitz Webster, residing therein, sued her father, Benjamin Hurvitz, likewise a resident of Raleigh, and the First National Bank of Mt. Hope, Fayette County, for the possession of a diamond ring of $1,200.00 value. To a judgment against it, on directed verdict, in favor of the plaintiff for the possession of the ring or, in the alternative, that it pay the stated value thereof, the bank was awarded writ of error.

At Rules, the bank filed a plea in abatement challenging the jurisdiction of the circuit…