Whan v. Hope Natural Gas Co.
West Virginia Supreme Court
Error to Circuit Court, Wood County. Action by S. M. Whan against the Hope Natural Gas Company. From a judgment for plaintiff, defendant brings error.
1Opinion of the Court
LYNCH, PRESIDENT:
Should the prosecution of the action in which the judgment complained of was rendered be stayed until the common pleas court of Alleghany county, Pennsylvania, a court of general jurisdiction, shall determine to which of two adverse claimants Hope Natural Gas Company, that incurred the liability, ought to be required to pay the money due thereon— S. M. Whan, the assignee of his father and brother, doing business together as W. S. Whan & Son, or National Supply Company, a creditor of the partnership?
Hope Natural Gas Company, a corporation chartered and organized under the…
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