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Table Mountain Gold & Silver Mining Co. v. Waller's Defeat Silver Mining Co.

Nevada Supreme Court

Decided July 1, 1868PublishedCited by 13 opinions

Appeal from the District Court of the Fourth Judicial District, Lyon County. The motion to change the place of trial in this action was made by the defendant in June, 1866, and based upon two. affidavits, dated June 23d of that year. The first wTas that of Patrick Henry, the superintendent of the corporation defendant, in which he deposes, that “ he is informed and believes, that the Efon.

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Appeal from the District Court of the Fourth Judicial District, Lyon County. The motion to change the place of trial in this action was made by the defendant in June, 1866, and based upon two. affidavits, dated June 23d of that year. The first wTas that of Patrick Henry, the superintendent of the corporation defendant, in which he deposes, that “ he is informed and believes, that the Efon. William Haydon, Judge of the above entitled county, is disqualified from hearing or trying this cause, for the reason that the said Judge is, and for a long time has been, the owner of an undivided interest…

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By the Court,

Beatty, C. J. •

This is an appeal from an order overruling a motion for a change *220of venue. The application was made by the defendant, upon the ground that the Judge of the Fourth Judicial District, before whom the case was pending, was interested in the result of the suit. Two affidavits were filed in support of the motion. The first merely asserts that the affiant is informed and believes that the Judge “ is disqualified from hearing or trying this cause, for the reason that the said Judge is, and for a long time has been, the owner of an undivided interest of twenty-five feet in…

2Cited by13 opinions

  1. Craven v. United StatesCourt of Appeals for the First Circuit · 1927
  2. Ex parte N. K. Fairbank Co.District Court, M.D. Alabama · 1912
  3. State v. ChapmanSouth Dakota Supreme Court · 1890
  4. Studebaker Bros. Co. of Utah v. WitcherNevada Supreme Court · 1921
  5. State ex rel. Pacific Reclamation Co. v. DuckerNevada Supreme Court · 1912

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