Queen v. Westfall
West Virginia Supreme Court
Error to Circuit Court, Upshur County. Action by Laeo Queen against A. A. Westfall and others. From a judgment of a justice, there was an appeal to the circuit court, defendants’ motion for u continuance was overruled, and there was a verdict and judgment for plaintiff, and defendants, bring error.
1Opinion of the Court
Millek, Judge:
The sole question presented by the record is whether the circuit court erred in overruling defendant’s motion for a continuance.
The case was pending in the circuit court upon an appeal from the judgment of a justice, and when the motion for a continuance was interposed, it had been pending from about August 1917 to November 1918. The order of the court, entered on November 16, 1918, recites that upon the calling of the case, for-*299trial “defendants by their attorneys moved for a continuance and filed the affidavit of A. A. Westfall, marked A. A. W., claiming that one, of his…
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