Hansford v. Chesapeake Coal Co.
West Virginia Supreme Court
Snyder, Judge, furnishes the following statement of the ease: The appellants, Sarah K. Hansford and others, were co-defendants with John Claypool, Andrew Johnson, the Chesapeake Coal Company and others, in a suit brought in the circuit court of Kanawha countyl,by E. E. Elagg against said defendants.
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Snyder, Judge, furnishes the following statement of the ease: The appellants, Sarah K. Hansford and others, were co-defendants with John Claypool, Andrew Johnson, the Chesapeake Coal Company and others, in a suit brought in the circuit court of Kanawha countyl,by E. E. Elagg against said defendants. The bill and the greater part of the proceedings had in said suit do not appear in the transcript of the record brought to this Court, and we cannot, therefore, certainly know what were the issues and proceedings had therein, or the object and final determination thereof. It is evident, however,…
1Opinion of the Court
SNYDER, Judge:
The appellants complain of and assign as error the action *75of the court iu dismissing their cross-bill and rejecting their bill oi review. They insist that under the authority of Benson v. Humphreys, 75 Va. 196, they were entitled to compensation for the excess of sixty-eight acres of land at the price of twenty dollars per acre.
Before proceeding to consider these alleged errors, it is necessary to refer to a preliminary question presented by the record, and that is, was this a proper case for a cross-bill or for relief between co-defendants ?
“A cross-bill should be confined to…
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