Elder v. Incorporators of Central City
West Virginia Supreme Court
cited 29 Mich. 451; 32 Minn. 540; Cooley Con. Lim. p. 137; Locke on Civil Government 142; 43 Iowa 252; 28 W. Ya. 289; 36 N. W. Rep. 813; 11 Ohio St. 99; 70 N. Y. 518; 14 Am. Rep. 312; 3 Am. & Eng. Cy. of Law, 698; 15 Icl. 1003; Const. Art YI, sec. 39. cited Const. Art. YI, sec. 39; 32 Minn. 543; Cooley Con. Lim. 77; 10 Col.' 553, 559; 13 Graft. 78; 8 Pa. St. 391, 395, 416; 25 W. Ya. 428; 11 Ohio St. 99; 8 Ohio St. 285; 28 W. Ya. 289.
1Opinion of the Court
Holt, Presideht :
The Circuit Court of Cabell county, on petition of J. S. Farr and others, by order entered on the 31st day of July, _■ P93, directed a certificate of incorporation to be issued of a pat i of C uyandotte district as a town by the name of Central City, from which order B. D. Elder and others obtained this' writ of error.
In 1872, the organization of many parts of the state into municipal corporations, for the purpose of local self-govern*223ment bad! become a matter of frequent and urgent necessity. Tbe framers of the constitution thought that this need in the great majority of…
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