Lawrence v. DuBois
West Virginia Supreme Court
Appeal from and supersedeas■ to. a judgment of the circuit court o,f the county of Kanawha* rendered o,n the 12th day of December, 1876, in a cause in chancery in S£dd court then pending, wherein Merriman M. Lawrence and others were plaintiffs and Henry A. DuBois and others were defendants, allowed upon the petition of Merriman M. Lawrence and Charles K. Lawrence. Hon. Joseph Smith, judge of the seventh judicial circuit, rendered the judgment appealed from.
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Appeal from and supersedeas■ to. a judgment of the circuit court o,f the county of Kanawha* rendered o,n the 12th day of December, 1876, in a cause in chancery in S£dd court then pending, wherein Merriman M. Lawrence and others were plaintiffs and Henry A. DuBois and others were defendants, allowed upon the petition of Merriman M. Lawrence and Charles K. Lawrence. Hon. Joseph Smith, judge of the seventh judicial circuit, rendered the judgment appealed from. Green, President, furnishes the following statement of‘the case : In July, 1873, Merrimen M. Lawrence filed his bill in the circuit court…
1Opinion of the Court
Green, President,
delivered the opinion of the Court :
syllabus 3. The first question presented by the pleadings in this cause is: Had the circuit court jurisdiction of this cause,'the tract of land, which is the subject of controversy, lying in Boone county? The defendants, Dela-field DuBois and Alice G. DuBois his wife, who had the legal title to this land, resided in Kanawha county, and it therefore had jurisdiction to hear and determine such a cause. See Acts of 1872-3 chapter one hundred and seven, section o.ne. This suit might have been brought *456in Kanawha county, even though the land had…
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