Wiley v. Mahood
West Virginia Supreme Court
This was an appeal from a final decree of the circuit court of the county of Mercer, rendered on the 21st day of October, 1874, in the consolidated causes of 'William A. Wiley against Alexander Mahood and others, Benjamin White against Alexander Mahood and others, and Joseph H. Alvis and others against Alexander Mahood and others. Hopkins, Hull & Co. filed their petition in the said cause of White against Mahood and others.
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This was an appeal from a final decree of the circuit court of the county of Mercer, rendered on the 21st day of October, 1874, in the consolidated causes of 'William A. Wiley against Alexander Mahood and others, Benjamin White against Alexander Mahood and others, and Joseph H. Alvis and others against Alexander Mahood and others. Hopkins, Hull & Co. filed their petition in the said cause of White against Mahood and others. The appeal was granted upon the petition of William A. Wiley. The Hon. Evermont Ward, Judge of the ninth judicial circuit, rendered the decree complained of. A full…
1Opinion of the Court
Johnson, Judge:
There is much complication in these causes; and if their consolidation had not been acquiesced in, without objection, it would certainly have been improper to have made such an order.
Both the appellant, and appellees Hopkins, Hull & Co., claim that there is error in the decree of the 21st of October, 1874; the former, because the claim of Hopkins, Hull & Co. was placed before that of Wiley, in the distribution of the proceeds of the sale of Mahood’s lands, Wiley contending that Cecil, the attorney of Hopkins, Hull & Co., had received of Mahood, bonds, &e., in full satisfaction…
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