Hinkle v. Bauer Lumber & Home Bldg. Center, Inc., 13174
Decision Date | 11 February 1975 |
Docket Number | No. 13174,13174 |
Citation | 158 W.Va. 492,211 S.E.2d 705 |
Court | West Virginia Supreme Court |
Parties | Kenneth HINKLE et al. v. BAUER LUMBER AND HOME BUILDING CENTER, INC., etc. |
James F. Cain, Elkins, Daniel G. LaPorte, Akron, Ohio, for appellant.
Bonn Brown, Elkins, for appellees.
This is an appeal and supersedeas from a final order of the Circuit Court of Randolph County which dismissed a civil action seeking injunctive and other relief against the appellant, Bauer Lumber and Home Building Center, Inc. The order also purported to remand the case to an administrative forum of the City of Eklins which had never assumed jurisdiction of the parties and subject matter in litigation in the first instance. Additionally, the order required of the appellant that it give bond in the trial court in the penalty of $35,000.00 conditioned to pay damages which the appellees might sustain if the appeal was not granted by this Court.
All of the foregoing relief and more was incorporated into the order appealed from although the trial court specifically concluded in a previous paragraph of the same order that it had absolutely no jurisdiction of the subject matter of the civil action:
No party to this appeal asserts that the trial court had jurisdiction of the subject matter of the action. The record also provided no help in this regard.
The complaint purports to be a class action instituted by property owners in the City of Elkins against the lumber company seeking to enjoin it, temporarily and permanently, from violating authorized use provisions of the municipal zoning ordinance as respects certain property located within the city. That pleading, however, makes only vague references to facts which could conceivably provide a jurisdictional basis for equitable relief against a nuisance causing harm; but such inference on our part arises only by implication and not by express allegations. Unfortunately, the appellees' pleadings and demands for relief are entirely unsupported by proof. The trial...
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