Devendorf v. West Virginia Oil & Oil Land Co.
West Virginia Supreme Court
Appeal from and swpersedeas to a judgment of the circuit court of the county of Wood, rendered on the 2d day of October, 1877, in a cause in said court then pending, wherein D. B. Devendorf was plaintift, and The West Virginia Oil and Oil Land Company and others were defendants, allowed upon the petition of said company. Hon. J. M. Jackson, judge of the fifth judicial circuit, rendered the judgment appealed from.
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Appeal from and swpersedeas to a judgment of the circuit court of the county of Wood, rendered on the 2d day of October, 1877, in a cause in said court then pending, wherein D. B. Devendorf was plaintift, and The West Virginia Oil and Oil Land Company and others were defendants, allowed upon the petition of said company. Hon. J. M. Jackson, judge of the fifth judicial circuit, rendered the judgment appealed from. HaymoND, Judge, furnishes the following statement of the case: In September, 1875, D. B. Devendorf, plaintiff, filed his bill against M. Y. Bentley, The West Virginia Oil and Oil…
1Judgment of the CourtHaymoND, Judge
The first error assigned and relied upon by the appellant in its said petitiou is as follows:
“ First. The court erred in deciding that the draft, mentioned in said bill and filed and exhibited therewith, was made by said Compton for and on behalf of The West Virginia Oil and Land Oil Company, as its president and agent, having authority to bind said company by making said paper, &c.”
The counsel for the appellant in support of this assignment contend, that, “the paper sued upon was upon its face .the promise or obligation of R. S. Compton, and the word ‘Pres.’ annexed to his signature was only…
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