West Virginia Supreme Court June 30, 1880 (McCoy v. Allen)

Green, President,

delivered the opinion of the Court.

Syllabus 1. The first enquiry presented by this record is: Was Robert W. Cox, the appellant, a party to the original cause ? He certainly was not made a party by the original bill, but by the first decree in the cause on the defendant’s motion “he was made a party defendant, and it was ordered that process issue against him.