White v. Perry
West Virginia Supreme Court
Appeal from, and supersedeas to, a decree of the circuit court of Greenbrier county rendered on the 1st day of November, 1877, in a cause in said court then pending in which George "VYhitc was plainfiff, and Joseph Perry and others were defendants, granted on petition of Lewis T. Tolley. Hon. Homer A. Holt, judge of the eighth judicial circuit, rendered the decree appealed from.
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Appeal from, and supersedeas to, a decree of the circuit court of Greenbrier county rendered on the 1st day of November, 1877, in a cause in said court then pending in which George "VYhitc was plainfiff, and Joseph Perry and others were defendants, granted on petition of Lewis T. Tolley. Hon. Homer A. Holt, judge of the eighth judicial circuit, rendered the decree appealed from. Green, President, furnishes the following statement af the case: In February, 1876, George White brought a chancery suit in the county court of Greenbrier county against Joseph Perry, Lewis Tolly, David Watts and…
1Opinion of the Court
Green, President,, delivered the opinion of the Court:
The first question presented by this record is : Did the Us pendens, duly recorded by the plaintifl: White, bind the real estate of Joseph Perry ? When the plaintiff instituted his action of debt against Perry, lie had recorded a lis pendens stating, that the object of the suit was to obtain a judgment on certain specified' bonds, and ultimately to obtain a lien on all the lands owned by Perry, describing them. The county court held, that the recording of this lis pendens created a lien on Perry’s lands. The circuit court, I presume, held…
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