West Virginia. Supreme Court of Appeals
Organization
Found in 4 Collections and/or Records:
Broadside Collection
Collection
Collection Number: A&M 4767
Scope and Contents
This collection was created through the composition of materials removed from other A&M collections, staff collected materials, and the merging of smaller collections. As a result, this collection covers a wide range of activities and movements from West Virginia and the larger Appalachian region. The subject areas of the collection include: 1) state petitions, and government announcements, 1777-1979; 2) public announcements, public sales, and advertisements, 1853-1899; 3) elections,...
Dates:
1777-2012 and undated
Charles V. Wehner, Attorney, West Virginia Court of Appeals Booklets and Other Material
Collection
Collection Number: A&M 4140
Overview
Publications from the Kingwood law office of attorney Charles V. Wehner (12 November 1921 to 11 September 2009). Includes mostly booklets regarding cases before the Supreme Court of Appeals of West Virginia, or the Supreme Court of Appeals of the United States. There are personal and corporate litigants. Corporate litigants include the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad, Carleton Mining and Power Company, Franklin Coal and Coke Company, Freeport Coal Company, Preston County Power Company, Standard...
Dates:
1907-1965, 1992-2013; Majority of material found within 1907-1965
Herbert Warder Dent (b.1880) Papers
Collection
Collection Number: A&M 0088
Overview
Deeds of Peter T. Laishley and Samuel Arnold, Preston County, 1834 and 1837; photographs of the judges of the State Supreme Court of Appeals, 1863-1937; a map of the McGraw and Yates addition to Grafton; and Dent family genealogical data.
Dates:
1834-1937
John Stringer Hoffman (1821-1877) Papers
Collection
Collection Number: A&M 1703
Overview
Legal correspondence and papers of a Clarksburg lawyer who specialized in land title litigation and served as associate judge of the Supreme Court of Appeals of West Virginia, 1862-1876. Papers pertain to lands in the central counties of West Virginia. Subjects include: the James Swan lands; European immigration to West Virginia following the Civil War; New York Southern Land Company; Philadelphia International Land Association; state economic development during Reconstruction; and...
Dates:
ca. 1856-1883
Additional filters:
- Subject
- Appalachian Region 1
- Blair Mountain, Battle of, W. Va., 1921 1
- Broadsides. 1
- Campus protests -- West Virginia University 1
- Civil War - West Virginia. 1
- Clarksburg (W. Va.) 1
- Coal companies - West Virginia. 1
- Coal mine accidents 1
- Coal miners--West Virginia 1
- Coal mining - Labor organization. 1
- Estate settlements. 1
- Feminism 1
- Football -- West Virginia -- Morgantown 1
- Grafton. 1
- Immigration. 1
- Judges - letters and papers. 1
- Labor disputes -- West Virginia -- 20th century -- History 1
- Lawyers - letters and papers. 1
- Lumber trade 1
- Maps. 1
- Preston County (W. Va.) 1
- Reconstruction (U.S. history, 1865-1877) 1
- Shavers Mountain (W. Va.) 1
- Socialism 1
- Strikes -- West Virginia -- Coal miners 1
- Temperance and prohibition. 1
- United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 1
- West Virginia Mine Wars, W. Va., 1897-1921 1
- Women -- Suffrage 1
- World War, 1914-1918 1
- World War, 1939-1945 1 + ∧ less
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