Boner v. Boner

Citations

• 6 W. Va. 377
• 1873 W. Va. LEXIS 45

Syllabus

<p>Syllabus.</p> <p>A sale of slaves having been made by a commissioner of the court, hut no report of said sale made and returned to the court until after a period of between four and live years thereafter, during which period the papers in the cause are absent from the clerk’s office, precluding the purchasers from knowing what was done, or what it was proposed to do in the cause, and the order directing the sale not authorizing the delivery of the slaves to the purchasers, it was error to make an order confirming said sale, without notice to the purchasers.</p>