Bridges v. Shallcross
West Virginia Supreme Court
On the 4th day of June 1873, ’William L. Bridges filed in the Supreme Court of Appeals a petition in which it was represented that on the 15th day of April 1873, at a meeting of the Board of Public Works, the said Board, pursuant to the provisions of an act of the legislature passed April 1st 1873 entitled “An act to amend and re-enact seeds six, seven, fourteen and nineteen of Chapter one hundred and sixty-three of the Co e of West Virginia,” did on the said 15th day of…
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On the 4th day of June 1873, ’William L. Bridges filed in the Supreme Court of Appeals a petition in which it was represented that on the 15th day of April 1873, at a meeting of the Board of Public Works, the said Board, pursuant to the provisions of an act of the legislature passed April 1st 1873 entitled “An act to amend and re-enact seeds six, seven, fourteen and nineteen of Chapter one hundred and sixty-three of the Co e of West Virginia,” did on the said 15th day of April 1873, appoint the petitioner to the office of superintendent of the penitentiary at Moundsville, for the term of two…
1Opinion of the Court
Haymostd, President.
The only questions presented for the consideration and determination of the court by the demurrer of the complainant to the return of the defendant made to the mandamus nisi awarded in this cause arc as follows viz:
First: Is the act passed by the legislature on the 14th day of January 1873, entitled “An act amending and re-enacting section one of Chapter fifty-six of the Code of West Virginia concerning the Board of Public Works, which provides that the governor, auditor, treasurer, superintendent of free schools, and attorney general, shall be and continue a corporation…
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