Given v. United Fuel Gas Co.
West Virginia Supreme Court
Appeal from Circuit Court, Kanawha County. Suit by B. K. Given and others against the United Fuel. 'Gas Company and others for the cancellation of a deed granting a right of way for a pipe line and for other relief. From ■a decree dismissing the bill as against the named defendant, plaintiffs appeal.
1Opinion of the Court
IPOFEENBARGER, JUDGE :
This appeal is from a decree dismissing a bill in a suit in which there was good cause for action, at the date of the institution thereof, but which was partially nullified by subsequent action of the defendant. The altered situation still left right in the plaintiffs to have a pecuniary recovery from the -defendant, and the contention of the plaintiffs is that the amount due them should have been ascertained and decreed to them in this suit. They may obtain part or all of what they are entitled to by means of a statutory proceeding in a court of law, and the appellee…
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