Poole & Co. v. Rice
West Virginia Supreme Court
Appeal from, and supersedeas to, a decree of the circuit court of Wood county, rendered on the twenty-ninth day of July, 1875, in a suit therein pending in said court, wherein William T. Poole and N. A. Poole, partners .in trade, doing business under the firm name of W. T. Poole & Co., were complainants, and George Rice, respondent. The appeal was taken by the respondent. The opinion of the Court contains a sufficient statement of the facts.
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Appeal from, and supersedeas to, a decree of the circuit court of Wood county, rendered on the twenty-ninth day of July, 1875, in a suit therein pending in said court, wherein William T. Poole and N. A. Poole, partners .in trade, doing business under the firm name of W. T. Poole & Co., were complainants, and George Rice, respondent. The appeal was taken by the respondent. The opinion of the Court contains a sufficient statement of the facts. The Hon. James M. Jackson, judge of the said court, presided at the hearing below.
1Opinion of the Court
Green, Judge :
This was a suit in equity, accompanied by an attach*74ment — the defendant being a non resident. It was brought "in the circuit court of Wood county, in 1874.
The evidence is contradictory, but the substantial facts appear to be as follows: On December 31, 1873, the plaintiffs received of the defendant, on storage, some two thousand two hundred barrels of oil and gave their receipts to him, individually. He claims that the oil belonged to the Pit Hole Greek Petroleum Company, of which he was President. He admits, however, that he did not, at the time the oil was stored, or…
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