McConaughey & Co. v. Bennett's Executors
West Virginia Supreme Court
Appeal from Circuit Court, Gilmer County. Action by McConaughey and others against Bennett’s executors and others. Decree for defendants, and plaintiffs appeal.
1Opinion of the Court
POFEJONBARGER, JUDGE :
On the 19th day of November, 1896, Samuel M. McConaughey and Newton T. McConaughey, partners doing business as McConaughey & Co. and C. D. Haverty sued out of the clerk’s office of the circuit court of Gilmer County a summons in chancery against W. G. Bennett and Louis Bennett, as executors of the will of J. M. Bennett, deceased, and as two of the devisees and heirs at law of J. M. Bennett, deceased, Gertrude Howell *174and Mary B. Bowie, devisees and heirs at law of J. M. Bennett, deceased, and J. M. Hamilton, trustee. Service of this process was accepted November 21, 1896,…
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