Butler v. Butler's Admr.
West Virginia Supreme Court
Ajypeal by William G. Butler from a decree of the circuit court of Jefferson county, rendered at the September term, 1871, thereof, in suit therein pending, wherein said Butler was plaintiff and Benjamin F. Harrison,. Admr. of 'Vincent M. Butler and others were defendants. The opinion of the Court contains a sufficient statement of the facts in the case. The Hon. Joseph A. Chapline, judge of said circuit court-, presided at the trial below.
1Opinion of the Court
Moore, Judge:
The appellant, Vm. G. Butler, by his counsel, has assigned three grounds of error for the consideration of this Court, acting upon an appeal from the decree of the circuit court of Jefferson county.
Mrst, He claims that the said circuit court, in its decree at the September term, 1871, erred in allowing to the appellant but twenty-five cents in the dollar, upon the debt paid by him as the surety of Vincent M. Butler, when, according to the commissioner’s report, he had received the notes of the Valley Bank at par, to the amount of $2,297, by virtue of a sale of his wheat, made for…
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