Woodford v. McDaniels
West Virginia Supreme Court
Error to Circuit Court, Randolph County. Action by Isaac C. Woodford against Isaac .McDaniels for damages,for malicious use of judicial process. Judgment for defendant, and plaintiff brings error.
1Opinion of the Court
LynCh, Judge:
By an action of trespass on the case, Woodford seeks recovery of damages against the defendant, occasioned, as he avers, by the malicious use of judicial process. He charges *737that McDaniels, by bill in equity, filed in a federal court, secured the appointment of receivers, who were authorized to take and who did take into their possession, management and control a certain hotel and bar room under lease by Woodford, and certain goods used in the operation of the hotel and bar room, and thereby destroyed his business, resulting in the loss of the use of the personal property, the…
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