DAVIS v. MATHEWS

Nos. 10124, 10125.

361 F.2d 899 (1966)

Grover T. DAVIS, Jr., Appellant, v. Mrs. Hildegarde MATHEWS, Vernie Williams, Mrs. Opal Kiefer, Herbert Margon, Millard Wallace, John D. Warfield, William Markham, Mrs. Mary Kathleen McIntyre, William A. Ballard, The Charleston National Bank, a National Banking Association, and Kanawha City Savings & Loan Company, a corporation, Appellees. Opal KIEFER and Millard Wallace, Appellants, v. Mrs. Hildegarde MATHEWS, Vernie Williams, Grover T. Davis, Jr., Herbert Margon, John D. Warfield, William Markham, Mrs. Mary Kathleen McIntyre, William A. Ballard, The Charleston National Bank, a National Banking Association, and Kanawha City Savings & Loan Company, a corporation, Appellees.

United States Court of Appeals Fourth Circuit.

Decided May 30, 1966.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

George A. Daugherty, Charleston, W. Va., for Grover T. Davis, Jr.

H. D. Rollins and W. Hayes Pettry, Charleston, W. Va., for Opal Kiefer and Millard Wallace.

Howard R. Klostermeyer, Charleston, W. Va. (Spilman, Thomas, Battle & Klostermeyer, Charleston, W. Va., on brief), for Mrs. Mary Kathleen McIntyre.

George S. Sharp, Charleston, W. Va. (Kay, Casto & Chaney, Charleston, W. Va., on brief), for Mrs. Hildegarde Mathews.

B. D. Horan, Charleston, W. Va., for Vernie Williams.

Before BOREMAN and J. SPENCER BELL, Circuit Judges, and BUTLER, District Judge.


J. SPENCER BELL, Circuit Judge:

The West Virginia Department of Motor Vehicles was robbed of $360,000.00. This controversy involves the distribution of a reward offered by an insurance company for the arrest and conviction of the person responsible and for the return of the money. By the terms of the offer the determination as to which persons should receive the reward was to be made by a committee of three prominent citizens named by the company. The committee determined...

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