Baker v. Oil Tract Co.
West Virginia Supreme Court
An appeal by tbe Rathbone Oil Tract Company froip a decree rendered on the 27th day of November, 1871, by the circuit court of Wirt county, in a suit in chancery therein pending, wherein J. W. Baker was complainant and said Oil Tract Company and S. P. Wells, were respondents, The facts in the suit sufficiently appear in the opinion of the Court. The Hon. George Loomis, judge of said circuit court, presided at the hearing below.
1Opinion of the Court
PIayMOND, President:
This is a case of an attachment in equity. Complainant proceeded against the Rathbone Oil Tract Company, as a non-resident of this State, and its agent Wells, alleging that the Company had, at the commencement of tbe proceeding, estate in the county of Wirt, in this State. The proceeding was. commenced in February, 1867, the ..summons on which the attachment was endorsed was made returnable to the first Monday in March, after the date thereof. The attachment was levied, as appeal’s by the return of the Sheriff, on all the right, title and interest of the Rathbone Oil Tract…
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