State Ex Rel. Myers v. Hodge

Lovins, Judge:

This action in covenant in the name of the State of West Virginia for the use and benefit of Walter S. Myers against Roy Hodge and the surety on his official bond, Hartford Accident and Indemnity Company, was instituted in the Circuit Court of Raleigh County. To a judgment of that court for plaintiff in the sum of $514.60, the defendant prosecutes this writ of error.

On or about the 1st day of July, 1942, Walter S. Myers, then twenty years of age, entered into an oral agreement with H. D. Irwin for the lease of a three-room apartment in the City of Beckley, West Virginia, at a…