Hall v. Backus
West Virginia Supreme Court
Appeal from Circuit Court, Nicholas County. Suit by É. L. Hall and others against George C. Backus. From an order dissolving a preliminary injunction to restrain defendant from obstructing a private way, plaintiffs appeal.
1Opinion of the Court
POFEENBARGER, PRESIDENT :
The five plaintiffs in this suit, citizens of the unincorporated village of Vaughan, filed their joint bill for vindication of their alleged rights to easements over a certain piece of land owned by the single defendant, private ways of identical location, appurtenant to their lands. Being of the opinion that their claims were not well founded, the court below, .upon final hearing, dissolved the preliminary injunction awarded to restrain the defendant from obstructing the way in controversy and dismissed the bill. No questions of practice have been raised on this…
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