West Virginia. Supreme Court of Appeals

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...

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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.

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...