Hoffman v. Ryan
West Virginia Supreme Court
Appeal from and supersedeas to a decree of the circuit court of the county of Monongalia, rendered on the 14th day of July, 1879, in a suit in chancery in said court then pending, wherein John N. Hoffman and John "W. Carrace were plaintiffs and "Benjamin Ryan, John W. Corrothers and others were defendants, allowed upon the petition of said Carrace and Ryan. Hon. A. B. Fleming,'judge of the second judicial circuit, rendered the decree appealed from.
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Appeal from and supersedeas to a decree of the circuit court of the county of Monongalia, rendered on the 14th day of July, 1879, in a suit in chancery in said court then pending, wherein John N. Hoffman and John "W. Carrace were plaintiffs and "Benjamin Ryan, John W. Corrothers and others were defendants, allowed upon the petition of said Carrace and Ryan. Hon. A. B. Fleming,'judge of the second judicial circuit, rendered the decree appealed from. G-REEN, Judge, furnishes the following statement of the case: John H. Hoffman and John "W". Carrace, in April 1876, instituted a suit in the…
1Judgment of the CourtGreen, Judge
Many questions were raised in this case, in the court below, and have been argued in this Court, which in my judgment are not questions which can be considered or determined in this cause, though much evidence was taken in reference to them. It is these questions not properly in this case, which have so swelled this record. It contains three hundred and sixty-five manuscript pages, most of which have no bearing on the real questions proper to be decided in this case. In stating the case, I have merely stated enough' of this foreign matter to show the questions on which it was thus attempted…
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