Moore v. Johnson Service Co.

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

• holding that the prevailing party should be granted attorney’s fees as provided for in a commercial lease agreement
• holding that prevailing party should be granted attorney fees as provided for in a commercial lease agreement
• “An appellate court’s review of fact-finding determinations made by a trial court in the construction of a contract should respect and sustain such interpretations, unless they are clearly erroneous.”
• “[S]pecific words or clauses of an agreement are not to be treated as meaningless, or to be discarded, if any reasonable meaning can be given them consistent with the whole contract.”
• “[A] purchase by Consol Energy, Inc., or its affiliates of all of the stock or membership interest in Lessee shall not constitute an assignment of the Lease for purposes of this Section 18(a).”
• The word \assess\ has a broad or narrow meaning according to the sense or connection in which it is used. In its broadest sense the term includes the entire process of listing valuing and levying.

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

20 cases in this archive cite this case.

• Nelson v. West Virginia Public Employees Insurance Board
  West Virginia Supreme Court· 1983-01-20· cited 231×
• Killen v. Logan County Commission
  West Virginia Supreme Court· 1982-09-03· cited 48×
• Chesapeake Appalachia v. Cecil L. HIckman, etc.
  West Virginia Supreme Court· 2015-11-18· cited 35×
• Energy Development Corp. v. Moss
  West Virginia Supreme Court· 2004-01-08· cited 34×
• In Re Columbia Gas Transmission Corporation
  Third Circuit· 1994-10-05· cited 24×
• Maggiacomo v. DiVincenzo
  Supreme Court of Rhode Island· 1980-01-23· cited 12×
• Dunbar Fraternal Order of Police, Lodge 199 v. City of Dunbar
  West Virginia Supreme Court· 2005-12-01· cited 12×
• Thomas v. Goodwin
  West Virginia Supreme Court· 1980-05-27· cited 8×
• Lee v. Lee
  West Virginia Supreme Court· 2011-11-21· cited 8×
• Century Aluminum of West Virginia, Inc. v. Jackson County Commission
  West Virginia Supreme Court· 2012-05-29· cited 5×
• State of NJ v. Consolidated Rail Corp.
  Special Court under the Regional Rail Reorganization Act· 1988-07-21· cited 2×
• Wood v. Sterling Drilling & Production Co.
  West Virginia Supreme Court· 1992-07-23· cited 2×
• West Virginia State Department of Tax & Revenue v. Internal Revenue Service
  Third Circuit· 1994-10-05· cited 1×
• Pertee v. Goodyear Tire & Rubber Co.
  S.D. West Virginia· 1994-07-21· cited 1×
• Jeffery C. Wiles, William Talbot v. Work4WV-Region 1, Inc.
  West Virginia Supreme Court· 2018-05-14
• Frank W. Tuckwiller v. Raymond W. Tuckwiller
  West Virginia Supreme Court· 2020-02-07
• Mimi's Inc. and Harold R. Arbaugh v. BAI Riverwalk
  West Virginia Supreme Court· 2020-03-23
• Beckner v. Friendly Ice Cream Corp.
  Fairfax County Circuit Court· 2004-06-11
• PITA, LLC, and Milan Puskar revocable Trust Restated 9/28/11 v. Scott S. Segal and Scott S. Segal v. PITA, LLC, the Milan Puskar Revocable Trust Restated, 9/28/11
  Int. Ct. of App. of W.Va.· 2023-09-11
• Melissa L. Bleigh v. Dominion Energy Transmission, Inc., and HG Energy II Appalachia, LLC
  Int. Ct. of App. of W.Va.· 2024-12-23

Cites

7 cases in this archive are cited by this case.

• GAVENDA BROTHERS, INC v. Elkins Limestone Company
  West Virginia Supreme Court· 1960-11-22· cited 22×
• Breckenbridge v. County School Board
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 1926-11-18· cited 16×
• Oakwood Smokeless Coal Corp. v. Meadows
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 1945-06-06· cited 14×
• George F. Hazelwood Company v. Pitsenbarger
  West Virginia Supreme Court· 1965-04-06· cited 9×
• Auerbach v. Mr. & Mrs. Foster's Place, Inc.
  City of New York Municipal Court· 1927-02-15· cited 4×
• Wood Coal Co. v. Little Beaver Mining Corp.
  West Virginia Supreme Court· 1960-10-18· cited 3×
• Bernstein v. Bernstein
  Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of New York· 1923-06-01· cited 1×