Cunningham v. Bucky
West Virginia Supreme Court
cited 35 Am. St. Rep. 199; 26 Am. St. Rep. 325, 329; 7 Cusb. 417; 26 W. N. C. 51; 36 Minn. 334; 33 N. W. Rep. 114; 1 Add. Torts, 608; 1 Smith, Lead. Cas. (6th Ed.) 105; 11 Am. & Eng. Enc. Law, 32, 52, 53, notes; 52 Ark. 364; 83 Ga. 696; 47 Ark. 126; 28 N. E. Rep. 430; 2 O. B. 11.
1Opinion of the Court
Dent, Judge:
W. A. Cunningham obtained a judgment for two hundred and fifty four dollars and forty cents on the 18th day of May, 1895, in the Circuit Court of Randolph county, against Alpheus Bucky, who obtained a writ of error therefrom to this Court.
The errors assigned are for the refusal of the court to give certain instructions for the defendant, and the giving of certain instructions for the plaintiff, and the overruling of the motion for a new trial.
The cause of the action is the loss of two hundred and forty *672dollars ou the part of plaintiff, by theft, while stopping at defendants hotel,…
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