Legal Opinion

Stevens v. Brown

West Virginia Supreme Court

Decided November 11, 1882PublishedCited by 26 opinions

"Writ of error and supersedeas to a judgment of the municipal court of Wheeling, rendered on the 5th day ot July, 1881, in an action at law in the said court then pending, wherein J. E. Stevens who sues for the use of G. 0. Smith, was plaintiff, and E. IT. Brown and Norris II. Brown were defendants, allowed upon the petition of said Norris II. Brown. lion. Gibson L. Cranmer, judge of the municipal court of Wheeling, rendered the judgment complained of.

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"Writ of error and supersedeas to a judgment of the municipal court of Wheeling, rendered on the 5th day ot July, 1881, in an action at law in the said court then pending, wherein J. E. Stevens who sues for the use of G. 0. Smith, was plaintiff, and E. IT. Brown and Norris II. Brown were defendants, allowed upon the petition of said Norris II. Brown. lion. Gibson L. Cranmer, judge of the municipal court of Wheeling, rendered the judgment complained of. The facts ot the case are fully stated in the opinion of the Court. cited the following authorities : Acts 1872-3 ch. 226 § 139; 10 W. Ya. 180…

1Opinion of the Court

SnydeR,, Judge,

announced the opinion of the Court:

This is an appeal from a judgment of the municipal court of Wheeling, rendered on the 5th day of July, 1881, in an action of debt, brought by J. E. Stevens for the use of G. O. Smith against Norris II. Brown, on the 30th. day of September, 1880. The action is founded on the judgment of a justice, rendered August 4, 1880, in Newark township, in Licking county and State of Ohio, for one hundred and fifty dol-*453lax’s and six cents and five dollars and sixty cents costs. Two attachments issxxed in the case — one September 30, 1880, and the other…

2Cases cited16 opinions

  1. Pennoyer v. NeffSupreme Court of the United States · 1878
  2. Bank of Augusta v. EarleSupreme Court of the United States · 1839
  3. Scudder v. Union National BankSupreme Court of the United States · 1875
  4. Corfield v. CoryellU.S. Circuit Court for the District of Eastern Pennsylvania · 1823
  5. Mahany v. KephartWest Virginia Supreme Court · 1879

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3Cited by26 opinions

  1. North Alaska Salmon Co. v. PillsburyCalifornia Supreme Court · 1916
  2. Crumlish's Adm'r v. Cent. Imp. Co.West Virginia Supreme Court · 1893
  3. Pennsylvania R. R. v. RogersWest Virginia Supreme Court · 1903
  4. Miller v. WhiteWest Virginia Supreme Court · 1899
  5. State ex rel. Battle v. HerefordWest Virginia Supreme Court · 1963

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