REPORTS OF CASES

35

ARGUED AND DETERMINED IN THE

SUPREME COURT OF APPEALS

OF

WEST VIRGINIA.

BY HENRY M. MATHEWS,

Attorney General and Ex-Officio Reporter.

VOL. VII.

FROM JULY 19, 1873, TO JULY 17, 1874.

WHEELING:

JOHN W. GENTRY, PRINTER,

1876.

Entered according to Act of Congress, in the year one thousand eight hundred and

seventy-six, by

THE STATE OF WEST VIRGINIA,

In the office of the Librarian of Congress, at Washington.

NAMES OF THE JUDGES

OF THE

Supreme Court of Appeals

DURING THE TIME OF THESE REPORTS.

PRESIDENT-ALPHEUS F. HAYMOND,

Of Fairmont, Marion County.

JUDGE JOHN S. HOFFMAN,

Of Clarksburg, Harrison County.

JUDGE JAMES PAULL,

Of Wheeling, Ohio County.

JUDGE CHARLES P. T. MOORE,

Of Point Pleasant, Mason County.

ATTORNEY GENERAL AND EX-OFFICIO REPORTER,

HENRY M. MATHEWS,

Of Lewisburg, Greenbrier County.

ACKNOWLEDGMENT.

The Reporter desires to here acknowledge the valuable service rendered him by A. G. TEBBETTS, Esq., of the Monroe (W. Va.,) Bar, in the preparation for the printer of the cases reported in this volume, and in reading the proof and supervising the publication of the same.

H. M. M.