J. Maury Dove Co. v. New River Coal Co.

Crump, P.,

after making the foregoing statement, delivered the following opinion of the court.

The plaintiff in error, a corporation organized under the laws of the District of Columbia, instituted a proceeding in foreign attachment against the defendant in error, a corporation under the laws of West Virginia, as principal defendant under the attachment statutes of Virginia. The principal defendant appeared personally and thereafter the case proceeded as a common-law action instituted by the petitioner as plaintiff. A trial was had before a jury and a verdiet was rendered for the defendant coal…