Case ID: w-va_99/html/0019-01.html
Source: Caselaw Access Project
Author: {"author": "\n      Litz, Judge:", "license": "Public Domain", "url": "https://static.case.law/"}
Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

CHARLESTON.
    Bank of Raleigh, Trustee, v. Summit Coal Company et al.
    
    (No. 5039)
    Submitted May 13, 1924.
    Decided April 21, 1925.
    Appeal and ERROR — On Question Involved Becoming Moot Pending Appeal by Decision in Another Suit, Writ of Error Will be Dismissed Without Determination.
    
    When the question involved on writ of error becomes moot, pending the appeal, by a decision of this Court in another suit, the writ will be dismissed without determination. Hatcher, Judge, Absent.
    (Appeal and Error, 4 C. J. § 2397).
    Note : Parenthetical references by Editors, C. J. — Cyc. Not part of syllabi.
    Error to Circuit Court, Raleigh County.
    Proceeding by notice of motion for judgment by the Bank of Raleigh, trustee, against the Summit Coal Company and others. Judgment for plaintiff, and defendants bring error.
    
      Dismissed.
    
    
      C. M. Ward and Carl C. Sanders, C. W. Dillon and J. Q. Hutchmson, for plaintiffs in error.
    
      Price, Smith & Spilman and McGinnis, Maxwell & Mc-Ginnis, Ashton File and W. W. Goldsmith, for defendant in error.
   Litz, Judge:

The plaintiff, by notice of motion in the Circuit Court of Raleigh County, recovered judgment for $39,472.49 against the defendants upon an obligation executed by the defendants to the Raleigh Smokeless Fuel Company, a corporation, on March 21, 1921, and thereafter assigned to the plaintiff.

Before trial the defendants moved to quash the notice and, upon the theory that a recovery by them in another action pending in said court, wherein the defendant, Summit Coal Company, was plaintiff and Raleigh Smokeless Fuel Company, a corporation, defendant, could be offset against the plaintiff’s claim, also moved for a stay of this suit pending the trial in the other action. Error is assigned to the action of the trial court, overruling the motion to quash the notice and refusing to stay the proceeding, pending the trial of the suit of Summit Coal Company v. Raleigh Smokeless Fuel Company.

Sufficient ground is neither stated by the defendants nor perceived by this Court for the motion to quash the notice. The question involved on the second assignment of error has become moot by our decision, contemporaneous herewith, in the said action of Summit Coal Company v. Raleigh Smokeless Fuel Company, holding, in accordance with the circuit court, that the Summit Coal Company has no right of action against the Raleigh Smokeless Fuel Company.

The writ will therefore be dismissed.

Dismissed.