State Ex Rel. United Fuel Gas Co. v. Deberry

Lovins, Judge:

In this original proceeding in mandamus, commenced by United Fuel Gas Company against Honorable Max DeBerry, Judge of the Circuit Court of Doddridge County, West Virginia, O. C. Haught, Blanche T. Haught, and O. V. Haught, relator seeks a peremptory writ of mandamus requiring said judge to rule on the sufficiency of a bond filed by it in a condemnation proceeding under Code, 54-2-15.

United Fuel Gas Company, on May 20, 1947, presented its verified petition to said judge, alleging that petitioner is engaged in the business of producing, transporting and delivering gas at various…