Hall v. Lowther
West Virginia Supreme Court
Shyder, Jud&e, furnishes the following statement of the case: In May, 1863, Alexander Lowther brought, what is known in the Virginia practice as a “ suit by foreign attachment,” against Cyrus Hall and others in the circuit court of Ritchie county under the provisions of the Code of Virginia, chapter 151, and the act of February 10, 1862, of the restored government of Virginia at Wheeling, to subject the estate of said Hall in said county to the payment of a legal demand of…
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Shyder, Jud&e, furnishes the following statement of the case: In May, 1863, Alexander Lowther brought, what is known in the Virginia practice as a “ suit by foreign attachment,” against Cyrus Hall and others in the circuit court of Ritchie county under the provisions of the Code of Virginia, chapter 151, and the act of February 10, 1862, of the restored government of Virginia at Wheeling, to subject the estate of said Hall in said county to the payment of a legal demand of three hundred and thirteen dollars and eighty-eight cents. The plaintiff at the same time filed in said court his…
1Opinion of the Court
Snyder, Judge:
"When the case of Hall v. Hall, 12 W. Va. 1, was before this Court, the whole record of the proceedings had in the. suit of Alexander Lowther v. Cyrus Hall et al., exhibited in, and sought to be reviewed in this cause, was made a part of the record in that case, and the question, whether or not the circuit court of Ritchie county had jurisdiction to render the decrees made in said suit, was then directly presented to, and passed upon by this Court. By the decision then made on that question the appellant in this cause is concluded. It being a matter directly in issue and…
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