Worthington v. Staunton
West Virginia Supreme Court
Appeal from and supersedeas to a decree of the circuit court of the county of Kanawha, rendered on the 11th day of January, 1878, in a cause in said court then pending, wherein Henry Worthington was plaintiff and J. G. Staunton and others were defendants, allowed upon the petition of said Worthington. Hon. Joseph Smith, judge of the seventh 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 Kanawha, rendered on the 11th day of January, 1878, in a cause in said court then pending, wherein Henry Worthington was plaintiff and J. G. Staunton and others were defendants, allowed upon the petition of said Worthington. Hon. Joseph Smith, judge of the seventh judicial circuit rendered the decree appealed from. Johnson, JuijGb, furnishes the following statement of the case : At August rules, 1867, of the circuit court of Kanawha county, Henry Worthington filed his bill in chancery, in which he alleged, that on…
1Opinion of the CourtJohnson, Judge
It is insisted by counsel for the Stauntons, that the allegations of the bill are wholly insufficient to enable the plaintiff to maintain his suit against the said Staun-tons or either of them ; that the plaintiff files with his bill the contract between Collins and J. G. Staunton for the sale and purchase of the one hundred acres and the written guaranty of said contract by himself and his co-grantors, and alleges that the purchase-money for the one hundred acres remains unpaid, and asks that the said land be sold to pay said purchase-money, but does not allege that the notes of Staunton to…
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