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Recent Developments In Local Procedure, Leo Carlin
Recent Developments In Local Procedure, Leo Carlin
West Virginia Law Review
The Supreme Court of Appeals of this state, in three recent eases, two at law and one in equity, has prescribed or suggested what many West Virginia practitioners may consider innovations affecting three very ordinary matters of practice in this jurisdiction. Two of these cases, dealing, respectively, with the manner in which failure of consideration may be asserted as a defense and the necessity of process upon a cross-bill answer, are actual adjudications. One, indicating certain circumstances under which it is deemed the Statute of Frauds should be pleaded specially, contains only dicta so far as that particular question is …