Grantham v. Lucas
West Virginia Supreme Court
Appeal from and supersedeas to a decree of the circuit court of the county of Jefferson, rendered on the 16th day of November, 1875, in 'a cause in said court then pending, wherein William J. Grantham was plaintiff and Daniel B. Lucas and others were defendants, allowed upon the petition of the said Grantham. Hon. John Blair Hoge, judge of the third judicial circuit, rendered the decree appealed from.
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Appeal from and supersedeas to a decree of the circuit court of the county of Jefferson, rendered on the 16th day of November, 1875, in 'a cause in said court then pending, wherein William J. Grantham was plaintiff and Daniel B. Lucas and others were defendants, allowed upon the petition of the said Grantham. Hon. John Blair Hoge, judge of the third judicial circuit, rendered the decree appealed from. JOHNSON, Judge, furnishes the following statement of the case: At rules in May, 1871, Grantham filed his bill in the circuit court of Jefferson county, complaining that it was inequitable to…
1Opinion of the CourtJohnson, Judge
It is contended by counsel for appellant, that it was error io sequester the rents and profits of the real estate of the defendant, until the amount of the liens and their priorities were ascertained ; and the case of Hollingsworth v. Brooks, 7 W. Va. 559 is cited to sustain their position. That cause has no application here, it being unlike this. The decree in the cause now before the court was not rendered for the purpose of enforcing the liens, but to preserve the estate pending the litigation. . If it was a case of that kind, there was no error of which the appellant could complain, as he…
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