Hall v. Pierce
West Virginia Supreme Court
The summons in this cause was brought to January rules, 1868, in the circuit court of Wood, county. The suit was in equity, the defendant Pierce being a non-resident, and an attachment was issued. The final decree was entered at the June term, 1868, dismissing the bill. A sufficient statement of the points arising in the cause appears in the opinion of Judge Berkshire.
1Opinion of the CourtBerkshire, J.
On the 16th of October, 1867, the appellant, by a written contract of that date, sold and agreed to deliver to J. Bayless, as agent for the appellee, J. 0. Pierce, 2,000 barrels of Burning Spring crude oil, to be delivered in bulk on first water at Parkersburg, at twelve cents per gallon; and the said Bayless,'as agent, agreed to advance to the said Hall two thousand dollars for the purchase money for said oil.
It appears that in pursuance of this contract, as it is claimed, the appellant some time afterwards delivered and had at Parkersburg and the immediate vicinity, in the Little Kanawha…
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