Chapman v. Maitland
West Virginia Supreme Court
Woods, Judse, furnishes the following statement of the case •: On the 26th of April-, 1871, Augustus A. Chapman, Wm. H. French and Manelius Chapman, sued out of the clerk’s office of the circuit court of Mercer county, a summons in chancery against Joseph Maitland, Frank EL Lane, Cornelius Curtis, and certain other defendants, described as the administrator, heirs and widow of one Guy 1). French; but when the said summons was returnable, or what return was in fact made…
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Woods, Judse, furnishes the following statement of the case •: On the 26th of April-, 1871, Augustus A. Chapman, Wm. H. French and Manelius Chapman, sued out of the clerk’s office of the circuit court of Mercer county, a summons in chancery against Joseph Maitland, Frank EL Lane, Cornelius Curtis, and certain other defendants, described as the administrator, heirs and widow of one Guy 1). French; but when the said summons was returnable, or what return was in fact made thereon does not appear, as they are not copied in the transcript of the record before this Coui’t. But as section 2, chapter…
1Opinion of the Court
'Woods, Judge :
In the view wre have taken of the proceedings in this cause it is unnecessary to notice all the errors assigned, or to decide all the questions raised thereby.
Bat upon the hypothesis that the court had jurisdiction to hear'and determine the cause, if is difficult to conceive, how one of so much importance, could have been prosecuted by the plaintiffs to a final decree without discovering the numerous errors apparent on the face of these proceedings.
The bill is prepared to accomplish one or two purposes; either to obtain a rescission of the contract dated November 25, 1854, and…
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