Gilchrist v. W. Va. O. & O. L. Co.
West Virginia Supreme Court
Appeal from and supersedeas to a decree of the circuit court of the county of Wood, rendered on the 9th day of October, 1877, in a cause in said court then pending, wherein E,. W. Gilchrist was plaintiff, and the West Virginia Oil and Oil Land Company was defendant, allowed upon the petition of said defendant. Hon. James M. Jackson, judge of the fifth judicial circuit, rendered the decree appealed from.
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Appeal from and supersedeas to a decree of the circuit court of the county of Wood, rendered on the 9th day of October, 1877, in a cause in said court then pending, wherein E,. W. Gilchrist was plaintiff, and the West Virginia Oil and Oil Land Company was defendant, allowed upon the petition of said defendant. Hon. James M. Jackson, judge of the fifth judicial circuit, rendered the decree appealed from. The facts of the case are fully stated in the opinion of the Court. cited the following authorities: Code pp. 90-91, § 4; Yoorhies N. Y. Code (ed. 1870) § 134; 5 How. (N. Y.) 183; 9 IIow. (N.…
1Opinion of the Court
Johnson, President,
announced the opinion of the Court:
In April, 1876, the plaintiff filed his bill in the circuit court of Wood county, in which he alleged the recovery of a judgment on the 7th day of June, 1875, in-the supreme court of Now York against the defendants, a corporation organized and existing under and by virtue of the laws of Michigan; and also against James II. Carrington and Henry Carrington, partners under the firm name of J. II. Carring-ton & Co., for the sum of one thousand five hundred and forty-nine dollars and seventy cents. The bill exhibits the said judgment and…
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