Legal Opinion

Salt Co. v. Brown

West Virginia Supreme Court

Decided February 25, 1874PublishedCited by 25 opinions

This was an appeal from the judgment of the circuit. court of Mason county, rendered on the 28th day of May, 1872, in a certain suit therein pending, wherein the Valley City Salt Company was plaintiff and Major Brown, Isaac Green and Mahala his wife, Joseph Hereford and Susannah his wife, Lydia Pumphrey, Virginia Pumphrey, Ella Pumphrey, Alice C. Pumphrey, -Boss and Cassandiahis wife, Bazelel J. Pumphrey and Ann his wife, George W. Pumphrey in his own right and as executor…

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This was an appeal from the judgment of the circuit. court of Mason county, rendered on the 28th day of May, 1872, in a certain suit therein pending, wherein the Valley City Salt Company was plaintiff and Major Brown, Isaac Green and Mahala his wife, Joseph Hereford and Susannah his wife, Lydia Pumphrey, Virginia Pumphrey, Ella Pumphrey, Alice C. Pumphrey, -Boss and Cassandiahis wife, Bazelel J. Pumphrey and Ann his wife, George W. Pumphrey in his own right and as executor of Nimrod Pumphrey and as trustee of Adaline Agnew, and Jane, wife of said George "W. Pumphrey, Perry C. Purnell and Mary…

1Opinion of the Court

Paule, Judge :

The Valley City Salt Company, the appellee and plaintiff below in this proceeding, is a corporation, organized under the laws of this State, for the purpose of digging or boring for salt and other minerals, and manufacturing the same; and also for mining coal and marketing the same; and for selling goods, having its principal office or place of business at Hartford City, in Mason county, West Virginia. The said company being the owner of a certain tract of land, containing thirty acres, and desiring to obtain access thereto by a subterranean right of way, by railroad, under a…

2Cited by25 opinions

  1. B. & O. Railroad v. P. W. & Ky. RailroadWest Virginia Supreme Court · 1881
  2. State Ex Rel. Edwards v. MillarSupreme Court of Oklahoma · 1908
  3. Varner v. MartinWest Virginia Supreme Court · 1883
  4. Railroad Co. v. Iron-WorksWest Virginia Supreme Court · 1888
  5. Carnegie Natural Gas Co. v. SwigerWest Virginia Supreme Court · 1913

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