Sommers v. Allen
West Virginia Supreme Court
Appeal from Circuit Court, Harrison County. Suit by D. W. Boug'hner and Hoffman Sommers ag-ainst J. H. Allen, Kate Allen, and the Merchants’ National Bank of West Virginia. There were decrees for plaintiffs, and certain defendants appeal.
1Opinion of the Court
Brannon, Judge:
D. W. Boug'hner and Hoffman Summers brougiit a suit in equity, with an attachment, ag'ainst J. H. Allen, Kate M. Allen, and the Merchants’ National Bank of West Virginia, at Clarksburg, resulting in a decree in favor of the plaintiffs for a debt, and subjecting to sale personal property of Kate M. Allen, to pay that debt and others brought into the case; and Kate M. Allen appeals, and the Clarks-burg Furniture Company unites in the appeal. There is no jurisdiction for the suit in a court of equity, unless the attachment gives it. A motion was made to quash the affidavit on…
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