Napier v. Mozena Coal Co.
West Virginia Supreme Court
Error to Circuit Court, Wayne County. Action of assumpsit by Thomas B. Napier against the Mozena Coal Company. Verdict and judgment for plaintiff, and defendant brings error.
1Opinion of the Court
Lynch, Judge :
Mozena Coal Company, a mining' corporation, has assigned one general and fourteen special grounds for reversal of the judgment rendered against it upon the verdict of a jury at the trial of an assumpsit action. Some of the assignments require only brief mention, others none, upon this review. The case as made by the declaration, demurred to and the demurrer overruled, is the breach by defendant of a contract of employment to haul coal by wagon and team for one year from defendant’s coal mine to a railroad siding near Radnor and load it into ears at that point, for which…
2Cases cited9 opinions
- Riley v. JarvisWest Virginia Supreme Court · 1896
- Haupt v. VintWest Virginia Supreme Court · 1911
- Carroll-Cross Coal Co. v. Abrams Creek Coal & Coke Co.West Virginia Supreme Court · 1919
- Farmers & Merchants Bank of Reedsville v. Kingwood National BankWest Virginia Supreme Court · 1920
- Sandusky v. Oil Co.West Virginia Supreme Court · 1907
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- Lawson v. West Virginia Newspaper Publishing Co.West Virginia Supreme Court · 1944
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