Baker v. Gaskins

Riley, Judge:

Irma Baker instituted this action before a justice of the peace against the defendants, W. F. Gaskins, E. A. Baker and Charles E. Baker for recovery upon a promissory note. Upon plaintiff’s appeal to the Circuit Court of Doddridge County the court directed a verdict in defendants’ favor, and to an order rendering judgment for costs alone in defendants’ favor, plaintiff obtained this writ of error.

The initial question presented by this record involves the propriety of this Court in .granting the writ of error. Defendants’ counsel say that the writ was improvidently awarded because…