Snyder v. Harper
West Virginia Supreme Court
Green, Judge, furnishes the following statement of the ease: On April 17, 1875, John I). Harper sued out of the clerk’s office of Pendleton county court a summons against Sampson Snyder, David Harman (of Samuel) Henry Snyder, Martin V. Bennett, Joseph Harman and Samuel Harman to answer the plaintiff of a plea of trespass, assault and battery, damage one thousand dollars. On the return day of said summons at the June rules the declaration was filed.
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Green, Judge, furnishes the following statement of the ease: On April 17, 1875, John I). Harper sued out of the clerk’s office of Pendleton county court a summons against Sampson Snyder, David Harman (of Samuel) Henry Snyder, Martin V. Bennett, Joseph Harman and Samuel Harman to answer the plaintiff of a plea of trespass, assault and battery, damage one thousand dollars. On the return day of said summons at the June rules the declaration was filed. It was a declaration for a trespass, assault and battery upon the plaintiff for heating, bruising, mutilating and shooting him. At the next term…
1Opinion of the Court
Green, Judge:
"We have had great difficulty in procuring a true copy of the record upon which the circuit court of Pendleton based its judgment affirming the judgment of the county court. As-we are merely supervising the judgment of the circuit court, we must act on the case as presented to that court by the record of the proceedings in the county court of Pendle-ton, as certified by its clerk which, I presume, had been mislaid by the clerk of the circuit court of Pendleton, as the record certified by him to this Court was, as it appeared from a return to a writ of certiorari issued by this…
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