Bowyer v. Knapp
West Virginia Supreme Court
Writ of error and supersedeas to ajudgment of the circuit court of the county of Greenbrier, rendered on the 20th day of April, 1875, in an action of debt in said court then pending, wherein Wm. Bowyer was plaintiff and Gamaliel Knapp and Obadiah C. Martin were defendants, allowed upon the petition óf said Bowyer. Hon. Homer A. Holt, judge of the eighth judicial circuit, rendered the judgment complained of.
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Writ of error and supersedeas to ajudgment of the circuit court of the county of Greenbrier, rendered on the 20th day of April, 1875, in an action of debt in said court then pending, wherein Wm. Bowyer was plaintiff and Gamaliel Knapp and Obadiah C. Martin were defendants, allowed upon the petition óf said Bowyer. Hon. Homer A. Holt, judge of the eighth judicial circuit, rendered the judgment complained of. JohnsoN, Judge, furnishes the following statement of the case: This is an action o.f debt, brought in the circuit court of Greenbrier county, on a joint and several bond of the defendants,…
1Opinion of the CourtJohnson, Judge
It is assigned as error that the court suppressed the depositions of Mary J. Bowyer and others, taken at Fayetteville, in Fayette county, on the 30th of September, 1875, pursuant to a notice served on defendant, Martin, to take depositions “ in a suit at law pending in the circuit court of Fayette county,” when the suit, in which the depositions were taken, was pending in the circuit court of Greenbrier county.
*289The bill of exceptions shows, that on tlie 30th day of October, 1875, upon the calling of the case, the defendants endorsed an exception on the depositions of Mary J. Bowyer and others,…
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