White v. Crump
West Virginia Supreme Court
Writ of error and supersedeas to a judgment of the circuit court of the county of Summers rendered on the 25th day of September, 1879, in an action in said court then pending, wherein Andrew White was plaintiff, and William B. Crump and Louis A. Shanklin were defendants, allowed upon the petition of said White. Hon. Homer A. Holt, judge of the eighth judicial circuit, rendered the judgment complained of.
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Writ of error and supersedeas to a judgment of the circuit court of the county of Summers rendered on the 25th day of September, 1879, in an action in said court then pending, wherein Andrew White was plaintiff, and William B. Crump and Louis A. Shanklin were defendants, allowed upon the petition of said White. Hon. Homer A. Holt, judge of the eighth judicial circuit, rendered the judgment complained of. JOHNSON, President, furnishes the following statement of the case: The plaintiff, White, instituted his action in debt upon a supersedeas-bond in the circuit court of Summers county on the…
1Opinion of the Court
Johnson, President,
announced the opinion of the Court:
The first plea filed by the defendants against the objection of the plaintiff is in substance as follows: that prior to the execution of the bond in the declaration mentioned the plaintiff, White, had in 1866 instituted a suit against one William H. French in the circuit court of Mercer county, in trespass; and in his declaration alleged that on or about the-day of- 1862, the defendant, French, arrested, carried away and imprisoned the plaintiff and did procure, order and instigate others so to do, wrongfully, forcibly and against the…
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