Kelley v. Thompson
West Virginia Supreme Court
Appeal from Circuit Court, Randolph County. Suit by F. P. Kelley and others against John Thompson and others. Decree for defendants on demurrer, and plaintiffs appeal.
1Opinion of the Court
Lynch, Judge:
The decree whose correctness is challenged upon this appeal sustained defendant’s demurrer to the bill and dismissed it without granting leave to amend, and held the bill unamendable. *695Upon its face and by its prayer tbe pleading purports to be a bill in the nature of a bill of review, though formally it is an original bill filed to annul the decree entered in the suit of John Thompson against F. W. Smith and his wife, Creed Isner, trustee, F. P. Kelley and J. H. Lawson; Kelley and Lawson, being plaintiffs in the bill so dismissed. Both suits brought in the same court had for…
2Cases cited6 opinions
- Plant v. HumphriesWest Virginia Supreme Court · 1909
- Prince's Administrator v. McLemoreSupreme Court of Virginia · 1908
- Clark v. SayersWest Virginia Supreme Court · 1900
- Fulton v. RamseyWest Virginia Supreme Court · 1915
- Bodkin v. RollysonWest Virginia Supreme Court · 1900
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