Legal Opinion

Hench v. Pritt

West Virginia Supreme Court

Decided June 12, 1907PublishedCited by 25 opinions

Error to Circuit Court, Randolph County. Action by S. N. Hench and. others against Asbury Pritt and others. From a judgment in favor of plaintiffs, defendants bring error.

1Opinion of the Court

McWhorter, Judge:

Hench, Dromgold and Shull a partnership doing business under the firm name of Hench, Dromgold and Shull, claiming-to be the owners of a large saw-mill plant at the town of Mill Creek in Randolph county on the Yalley river, a station on the line of the Huttonville Branch of the Western Maryland Railroad, filed their petition in the circuit court of Randolph county under section 2370 &c., Code 1906 (section 69a and its sub-divisions, chapter 54) setting forth that they were the owners of large bodies of timber and timber lands in said county in the vicinity of said railroad in…

2Cases cited21 opinions

  1. Boom Co. v. PattersonSupreme Court of the United States · 1879
  2. Wilkinson v. LelandSupreme Court of the United States · 1829
  3. Beekman v. Saratoga & Schenectady Rail RoadNew York Court of Chancery · 1831
  4. The West River Bridge Company v. DIXSupreme Court of the United States · 1848
  5. Sadler v. LanghamSupreme Court of Alabama · 1859

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3Cited by25 opinions

  1. Hark v. Mountain Fork Lumber Co.West Virginia Supreme Court · 1945
  2. Paine v. SavageSupreme Judicial Court of Maine · 1927
  3. Lingamfelter v. BrownWest Virginia Supreme Court · 1949
  4. West Virginia & Maryland Power Co. v. Racoon Valley Coal Co.West Virginia Supreme Court · 1923
  5. Gauley & Summersville Railroad v. VencillWest Virginia Supreme Court · 1914

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