Compton v. County Court of Marshall County

Lynch, Judge:

This writ requires a review of the procedure terminating in a nil capiat judgment upon a verdict for the defendant in an action to recover damages for an injury to the proprietary rights of the plaintiff averred to be occasioned by an alteration of a road grade through her land in Marshall County. The road connects ’with and, 'though probably much older, is an extension of Western Avenue of the city of Moundsville. The trespass complained of, if any was committed, injured only the land lying on the east side of the road which extends through the entire tract in a direction…