No. 103: Why I went to West Virginia as of 2:10 pm on Feb. 17, 2025 - 2.18.2025

West Virginia Reports 1886

p. 729 

Charlestown

Carskadon v. Minke et al.

Submitted Sept. 3, 1885 - Decided Nov. 14, 1885

re: $700; vendor’s lien

p. 253

Wheeling

State v. Enoch

Submitted June 22, 1885 - Decided July 3, 1885

re: druggist and license

p. 258

Wheeling

State v. Gould

Submitted June 19, 1885 - Decided July 3, 1885

re: torture of animals

“See pt. 9 re: “rendering judgment against defendant…requi[ing] defendant to give bond with approved security to ‘keep the peace’ or ‘be of good behavior’ and in default thereof to be imprisoned till such bond is given [to be illegal]. If so, writ of error reversed without remanding to court below.”

p. 175

Wheeling

Knight, Committee &c v. Watt’s Adm’rs, et al.

Submitted Jan. 15, 1885 - Decided July 3, 1885

re: youth adjudged to be “insane” and provided with confederate bonds to be later converted to gold after being undetermined as insane as an adult later to be fit to be held to terms of contract

p. 576

Charlestown

Fisher’s Heirs v. Camp’s Heirs

Submitted June 25, 1885 - Decide Sept. 26, 1885

re: “Attorney Bennett” (as opposed to “Commissioner Bennett” as named in report cited in another case) 

p. 615

Charlestown

Bailey vx. v. Stroud and Trail

Submitted June 24, 1884 - Decided oct. 2, 1885

re: Confederate bonds, legitimacy of obligation, and terms of conversion to gold and at what rate

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“p. 733”

Charleston

Haines v. Cochran Bros.

Submitted June 19, 1885 - Decided Nov. 14, 1885

re: 3 proofs of “conversion” – 1) “tortious taking”; 2) “use or appropriation … indicating a claim of right in opposition to owner”; 3) “refusal to deliver into possession on demand.”

If the first two cannot be proved then the third one is…”possession with intent…”?

S.D. Stokes

West Virginia Report

Caldwell, Vol XXVI, 1886.

Today. Before 3 pm CST on Feb. 18, 2025.

President Charity Colleen Crouse

4:41 pm CST