Supreme Court of West Virginia
Subject
Subject Source: Unspecified ingested source
Found in 3 Collections and/or Records:
Charles DiSalvo, WVU School of Law Professor and Gandhi Scholar, Papers
Collection
Collection Number: A&M 5284
Scope and Contents
This collection contains twenty years of documented research for DiSalvo’s well received biography on Gandhi’s time as an attorney in South Africa: M.K. Gandhi, Attorney at Law: The Man Before the Mahatma (2012). Notable materials include facsimiles of rare South African newspaper articles collected from libraries and repositories around the world. DiSalvo and his team read over 10,000 issues in all to put together this valuable resource for anyone studying...
Dates:
1893-1997; Majority of material found within 1893 - 1914; Majority of material found within 1982 - 1997
Davis Family Papers
Collection
Collection Number: A&M 1946
Scope and Contents
One box of material including original and typescript copies of letters exchanged between Anna Kennedy and J.J. Davis for the period 1860-1862. Also included is material on the Chapin family, Davis and Steen family genealogy and Reed family Bible.
Correspondents are J.J. Davis, Anna Kennedy, J.W. Davis, Phineas Chapin, Rev. Asa Brooks, and J. W. Wayland.
John W. Davis' certificate of Admission to practice before the Supreme Court of West Virginia dated 1896. His sponsor was Melville...
Dates:
1800-1941
Railroads and Government Regulation Collection
Collection
Collection Number: A&M 4365
Content Description
Miscellaneous items relating to railroads and to laws and regulations regarding railroads. Includes photostat copies of Supreme Court arguments in the case of the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad Company vs. Supervisors of Marshall County et al. (1869-1870). Also includes miscellaneous correspondence consisting of a copy of a letter regarding rates of service approved by Edwin Stanton, who was Secretary of War under Lincoln. There are also photocopies of correspondence addressed to J.D....
Dates:
1862-1870, undated