Thurston v. Hudgins
Supreme Court of Virginia
Error to a judgment of the Circuit Court of Mathews county, rendered September 25, 1893, on a petition for a mandamus wherein the plaintiff in error was the plaintiff, and the defendants in error were the defendants.
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Error to a judgment of the Circuit Court of Mathews county, rendered September 25, 1893, on a petition for a mandamus wherein the plaintiff in error was the plaintiff, and the defendants in error were the defendants. The notice of the intended application for the mandamus was served on the defendant Hudgins, but the case was not heard at the term appointed, to-wit, October term, 1891, and at the September term, 1892, an order was entered directing “that Alexander James, the present oyster inspector, be made a party defendant,” it appearing that Hudgins was no longer oyster inspector. In…
1Opinion of the CourtBuchanan, J.
James B. Thurston filed his petition in the Circuit Court of Mathews county at its October term, 1891, praying for a writ of mandamus against Thomas J. Hudgins, one of the oyster inspectors of that county, to compel him to give notice to Sidney T. Mathews and T. Conkling, to remove their stakes and other obstructions from certain oyster ground described in said petition, and, in the event of their failure to remove such stakes and obstructions after they had received such notice, to compel the said oyster inspector to remove the same himself at the costs of said Mathews and Conkling. To this…
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