Legal Opinion
Callahan v. Hicks
U.S. Circuit Court for the District of Western Virginia
Decided December 9, 1898PublishedCited by 2 opinions
On Motion to Dismiss.
1Opinion of the Court
PAUL, District Judge.
The plaintiffs in these causes move to dismiss the same on the ground that this court is without jurisdiction to entertain those suits. On the 21st of June, 1898, M. M. Callahan, the plaintiff in the first cause, in her own name instituted a chancery suit, in the circuit court of Wythe county, Va., against the defendants, Benjamin E. and George E.Hicks, who are spoken of in the pleadings as Hicks Bros., and who will be so designated herein. Hicks Bros, were nonresidents of the state of Virginia, and were proceeded against by an order of publication, under the statute law…
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