Trustees of Brooke Academy v. George
West Virginia Supreme Court
Appeal from ancl supersedeas to a decree of the circuit court of Brooke county, rendered on the 9th day of February, 1878, in a cause in chancery in said court then pending, wherein the Trustees of Brooke Academy were plaintiffs, and Samuel George, executor of the last will of Peter Curran, and others were defendants, allowed on the petition of the said plaintiffs. Hon. Thayer Melvin, judge of the first judicial circuit, rendered the decree appealed from..
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Appeal from ancl supersedeas to a decree of the circuit court of Brooke county, rendered on the 9th day of February, 1878, in a cause in chancery in said court then pending, wherein the Trustees of Brooke Academy were plaintiffs, and Samuel George, executor of the last will of Peter Curran, and others were defendants, allowed on the petition of the said plaintiffs. Hon. Thayer Melvin, judge of the first judicial circuit, rendered the decree appealed from.. GREEN, PRESIDENT, flUTlisheS the following St-ate-mOllt of the CflSG. On January 10, 1799, the Legislature of the State of Virginia passed…
1Opinion of the Court
GreeN, PRESIDENT,
delivered the opinion of the Court:
The views I entertain of this ease render it unnecessary for me to express any opinion in reference to any of the twenty causes of demurrer assigned by” the defendants, except the second of these causes, “that the act of the Virginia Legislature of December 20, 1862, is unconstitutional, null and void.” And except so far as the decision of this point may involve an expression of opinion necessary on some other causes of demurrer alleged, it would be improper to express any opinion, as the expression of such opinion is unnecessary, and as the…
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