Venable v. Coffman
West Virginia Supreme Court
The attorney for the Methodist Episcopal Chuch, on the 28th day of August, 1866, gave notice to Joel McPherson, Thomas Henning, Wallace Robinson, James T. Caldioell, Dean Venable, George Law, Henry Stuart, Patrick Beirne, and David K. Spotts, that on Tuesday, the 11th day of September, 1866, he should apply to the Hon. H. Harrison, judge of the circuit court of Greenbrier county, to remove Dean Venable, George Law, Henry Stuart, Patrick Beirne, and David K. Spotts, claiming…
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The attorney for the Methodist Episcopal Chuch, on the 28th day of August, 1866, gave notice to Joel McPherson, Thomas Henning, Wallace Robinson, James T. Caldioell, Dean Venable, George Law, Henry Stuart, Patrick Beirne, and David K. Spotts, that on Tuesday, the 11th day of September, 1866, he should apply to the Hon. H. Harrison, judge of the circuit court of Greenbrier county, to remove Dean Venable, George Law, Henry Stuart, Patrick Beirne, and David K. Spotts, claiming to act as trustees of the property of the Methodist Episcopal Church in the town of Lewisburg, and to appoint in their…
1Opinion of the Court
BROWN, President.
This court adopts much of the well considered opinion of the circuit court, rejecting such parts as are not approved.
The court is of opinion that under the 9th section of the Code of 1860, p. 412, upon which this motion is founded, reasonable notice of the application is all that is required; *319the defendants below having appeared by counsel on the 11th of September, when the motion was first called and the notice proved, and having asked and obtained a continuance of the case until the 13th, without offering any objection to the notice, ought therefore to be considered as…
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