Chesapeake & Ohio Railway Co. v. Hoard
West Virginia Supreme Court
Writ of error to an order of the circuit court of the county of Wayne, rendered on the 16th day of August, 1879, in a cause in said court then pending, wherein The Chesapeake & Ohio Railway Company was plaintiff and C. B. Hoard and others were defendants, allowed upon the petition of said company. Hon. Evermont Ward, judge of the ninth judicial circuit, rendered, the order appealed from.
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Writ of error to an order of the circuit court of the county of Wayne, rendered on the 16th day of August, 1879, in a cause in said court then pending, wherein The Chesapeake & Ohio Railway Company was plaintiff and C. B. Hoard and others were defendants, allowed upon the petition of said company. Hon. Evermont Ward, judge of the ninth judicial circuit, rendered, the order appealed from. The facts of the case are stated in the opinion of the Court. cited the following authorities : Acts 1875, ch. 114; Acts 1879, ch. 8; Con. W. Va. Art. Ill; Acts 1866, ch. 131, §10; Potter’s Dwarris 110; 6 W.…
1Opinion of the CourtMoore, Judge
The Chesapeake and Ohio Railway Company petitioned the circuit court of Wayne county to cause commissioners to be appointed to view certain lands belonging to the defendants and ascertain a just compensation therefor, and to make such orders and have such proceedings therein as needful to vest in the petitioner a full, complete and legal title to said lauds. The defendants, C. B. Hoard and The Ceredo Cemetery Association, moved to dismiss the proceeding for want of jurisdiction, which motion the circuit court sustained and by its order, entered August 16, 1879, did dismiss the proceeding for…
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