Johnson v. Young
West Virginia Supreme Court
Appeal from a decree of the circuit court of the county of Wood, pronounced in the year 1872, in a cause in chancery then pending in said court, wherein John B. Johnson was plaintiff, and Young, Carson & Bryant and others were defendants, granted upon the petition of said John B. Johnson. Hon. Thomas W. Harrison, then "a circuit Judge,'’rendered the decree complained of.
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Appeal from a decree of the circuit court of the county of Wood, pronounced in the year 1872, in a cause in chancery then pending in said court, wherein John B. Johnson was plaintiff, and Young, Carson & Bryant and others were defendants, granted upon the petition of said John B. Johnson. Hon. Thomas W. Harrison, then "a circuit Judge,'’rendered the decree complained of. Green, Presidest, who delivered the opinion of the Court, furnishes the following statement of the case: To the full understanding of the opinion in this case, it is unnecessary to state the particular character of the case…
1Opinion of the Court
Green, PRESIDENT,
delivered the opinion of the Court:
In addition to the facts appearing by the record in this cause, there are others of which this Court will take judicial notice, which are necessary to the full understanding of this case.
At the institution of this suit, and when it was decided, Wood county constituted a portion of the ninth judicial circuit, of which Judge Loomis was the Judge, Ritchie county constituted a portion of the second judicial circuit, of which Judge Stewart was the Judge, and Thomas W. Harrison, who really decided this cause, was the Judge of the fourth judicial…
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