Woodall v. Clark
Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit
Appeals from the District Court of the United States for the Southern District of West Virginia, at Huntington; Benjamin F. Keller, Judge. Suits by T. J. Woodall and by Alonzo Woodall against Herbert L. Clark and another, trustees of the Lincoln County Land Association, a voluntary unincorporated association, and others, and by Oad Mills against the Huntington Development & Gas Company, a corporation, begun in the state court, and removed to the federal court.
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Appeals from the District Court of the United States for the Southern District of West Virginia, at Huntington; Benjamin F. Keller, Judge. Suits by T. J. Woodall and by Alonzo Woodall against Herbert L. Clark and another, trustees of the Lincoln County Land Association, a voluntary unincorporated association, and others, and by Oad Mills against the Huntington Development & Gas Company, a corporation, begun in the state court, and removed to the federal court. From decrees dismissing the suits, complainants appeal.
1Opinion of the Court
PRITCHARD, Circuit Judge.
In disposing of the three above-stated causes, the learned judge who heard the same, in referring to the nature of the suits, said:
“Tlie above suits were instituted, in equity, in the circuit court of Lincoln county, W. Va., and later duly removed to this court. The matter is now before me upon motion to dismiss the bills of complaint, all three suits involve the same question, and the bills of complaint in each case are practically identical. Each seeks to have canceled, set aside, and held for naught, as a cloud upon their title, a certain paper writing, commonly…
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- McDonald v. Salem Capital Flour-Mills Co.United States Circuit Court · 1887
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