Hanchett-Bond Co. v. Payne Bros.

155 S.E. 538, 109 W. Va. 500, 1930 W. Va. LEXIS 104
West Virginia Supreme Court·Decided October 14, 1930·No. 6699·Published

Opinion

Lively, President :

This chancery proceeding was instituted by the Hanchett-Bond Company, a corporation, to enforce paving liens claimed by it by virtue of paving certificates issued by the city of Charleston to M; J. Smith, plaintiff’s assignor of said certificates, against seven lots owned by defendant, Payne Brothers Company, a corporation. Defendant denied the legality of the liens on the ground that there had been no dedication of the alley, paved by the city, to public uses. The decree of the chancellor, in which defendant charges error, granted to plaintiff the relief it sought.

By decree of the circuit court of Kanawha County in 1906, the Otto Brockerhoff-Payne Addition, situate in what is now known as West Charleston, was partitioned. Commissioners, *501 appointed to partition the land, had, pursuant to the court’s order, employed an engineer to survey and plat the land. The decree of the court approving and confirming the work of the commissioners provided that:

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