Legal Opinion

Radcliff v. Poundstone

West Virginia Supreme Court

Decided April 5, 1884PublishedCited by 8 opinions

"Woods, Judge, furnishes the following statement of the case: On the 17th clay of October, 1873, Richard S. Radcliff, residing in the county of Marion in this State, instituted his suit in chancery in the circuit court of that county, against George W. Pounclstone, and his wife Mary A. Poundstone, Samuel Thompson, residing in Pennsylvania, John W. Corothers of the said county of Marion, and the Discount and Deposit Bank of Brownsville, in Pennsylvania, and sued out an order…

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"Woods, Judge, furnishes the following statement of the case: On the 17th clay of October, 1873, Richard S. Radcliff, residing in the county of Marion in this State, instituted his suit in chancery in the circuit court of that county, against George W. Pounclstone, and his wife Mary A. Poundstone, Samuel Thompson, residing in Pennsylvania, John W. Corothers of the said county of Marion, and the Discount and Deposit Bank of Brownsville, in Pennsylvania, and sued out an order of attachment therein, against the estates of the defendants other than Corothers, for the sum of three thousand three…

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Woods, Judge:

The appellant assigns seven grounds of error in said decrees, the ñrst and third of which, if well taken are conclusive of all the others, and must end this controversy as far as she is concerned. The other five grounds of error, if such they be, affect the interest of the defendant George W. Poundstone who has never appeared in the cause, and who when these decrees were rendered, had his day in court to make the same appear.

The substance of the first ground of error assigned is, that neither of said decrees against appellant or her husband was warranted by the evidence, in this,…

2Cases cited1 opinion

  1. City of Wheeling v. TrowbridgeWest Virginia Supreme Court · 1872

3Cited by8 opinions

  1. Hooper v. HooperWest Virginia Supreme Court · 1889
  2. Johnson v. BankWest Virginia Supreme Court · 1906
  3. Howell v. HarveyWest Virginia Supreme Court · 1909
  4. Mankin v. JonesWest Virginia Supreme Court · 1908
  5. Gerow v. RiffeWest Virginia Supreme Court · 1887

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