183 W. Va. 521 - Ray v. Hey’s Empirical Analysis
1990
Citation profile
7
cited by 7 later decisions
1
states following
November 2007
most recently cited
7 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on 162 W. Va. 779 - Shobe v. Latimer · State v. Fredlock · 131 W. Va. 793 - Baird-Gatzmer Corp. v. Henry Clay Coal Mining Co. · Lawrence v. DuBois · Tennant's Heirs v. Fretts
Most-quoted passages
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“Every judge of a circuit court shall have general jurisdiction in awarding injunctions, whether the judgment or proceeding enjoined be in or out of his circuit, or the party against whose proceeding the injunction be asked reside in or out of the same. (Emphasis added.) [4]”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the dissent“The award of an injunction by the common pleas court of Kanawha county, wherein some of the defendants reside, to enjoin acts and proceedings being committed and prosecuted or threatened in Lincoln county and affecting real estate therein, is coram non judice and void....”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“exclusively in the circuit court of the county wherein the act or proceeding sought to be enjoined is to be done, or is doing, or is apprehended, notwithstanding some of the defendants may reside in another county....”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
How this case has been treated — in progress
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