127 W. Va. 92 - Peters v. Altizer’s Empirical Analysis
1944
Citation profile
4 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 6 later decisions — most recently July 1985
4 state decisions
Later decisions citing this case, by decade. The current decade is in progress, and our corpus holds fewer opinions from the most recent years, so the latest bars are undercounted — not a real decline.
Relationships
Relies on Bade v. Feay · 70 W. Va. 38 - Gooch v. Gooch · 122 W. Va. 632 - Rauschenbach v. Estate of McDaniel · 116 W. Va. 734 - Smith v. Pew · 93 W. Va. 33 - Keys v. Keys
Most-quoted passages
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“Services, usually and commonly rendered by a person standing in close blood relationship to person to whom services are rendered, do not constitute consideration for a note subsequently executed by recipient of services unless it is shown that services were of such nature and rendered under such circumstances as would evince an intention of payment at time services were rendered. " (Italics supplied.) The conclusion which we reach appears to be supported by the overwhelming weight of authority in this country. Our first premise that "no consideration”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
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