Booten v. Pinson
West Virginia Supreme Court
Error to Circuit Court, Mingo County. Proceedings by Orland H. Booten against A. C. Pinson, by G-ail T. Dudgeon against John S. Hall, and by A. C. Pinson, by John S. Hall, and by Tunia Nunemaker and others against O. H. Booten and others. Decisions for plaintiffs in the two cases first mentioned, and defendants bring error;-and decisions for defendants in the three cases last mentioned, and plaintiffs bring error.
1Dissent
POFEENBARGER, JüDGE,
(dissenting) :
My dissent in these eases is founded upon the rules universally observed in the solution of constitutional questions other than the one now under consideration, but recklessly cast aside and ignored, I think, in every case in which the constitutional guaranty, to municipal corporations, of the right of self-government, respecting matters primarily or peculiarly local, has been denied. Much of the argument relied upon for justification of the holding merely combats propositions not set up in support of the claim of the guaranty nor at all necessary to…
2Cases cited23 opinions
- Hunter v. City of PittsburghSupreme Court of the United States · 1907
- South Carolina v. United StatesSupreme Court of the United States · 1905
- People ex rel. Le Roy v. HurlbutMichigan Supreme Court · 1871
- Mayor of Baltimore v. State ex rel. Board of PoliceCourt of Appeals of Maryland · 1860
- Brown v. City of GalvestonTexas Supreme Court · 1903
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