Keatley v. County Court
West Virginia Supreme Court
Appeal from Circuit Court, Summers County. Bill by A. J. Keatley and others against the County Court of Summers County and others. Decree.for defendants, and plaintiffs appeal.
1Opinion
*274ON RE-HEARING.
After a careful reconsideration, of this case, and an examination of the authorities' to which we have been cited, we see no. reason for changing our former decision. Allegheny Co. v. Parrish, 93 Va. 615, is not 'in point. That case was controlled by a very different statute from the one which we are now considering. The Virginia statute authorized the county court to acquire as much as two acres for court house purposes, and gave express direction as to how that portion of the ground not occupied by court house, clerk’s office and jail, should be used. This, of course, affected…
2Cases cited5 opinions
- Lyman v. GedneyIllinois Supreme Court · 1885
- Herald v. Board of EducationWest Virginia Supreme Court · 1909
- County of Alleghany v. ParrishSupreme Court of Virginia · 1896
- Board of Supervisors of Warren County v. PattersonIllinois Supreme Court · 1870
- Widow & Heirs at Law of Reynolds v. Commissioners of Stark CountyOhio Supreme Court · 1831