Fant v. Miller
Supreme Court of Virginia
In May, 1852, Miller & Mayhew, late merchants residing' in Baltimore, instituted a suit of foreign attachment in the Circuit court of Essex, to attach a debt alleged to be due by %. S. Parland to E. R. Eant, by the name of E. L. Pant & Co., to satisfy a debt alleged to be due by said Pant-& Co. to said Miller & Mayhew. It turned out that the debt of Earland had been assigned to Wm. E. Phillips, and the attachment therefore failed of effect.
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In May, 1852, Miller & Mayhew, late merchants residing' in Baltimore, instituted a suit of foreign attachment in the Circuit court of Essex, to attach a debt alleged to be due by %. S. Parland to E. R. Eant, by the name of E. L. Pant & Co., to satisfy a debt alleged to be due by said Pant-& Co. to said Miller & Mayhew. It turned out that the debt of Earland had been assigned to Wm. E. Phillips, and the attachment therefore failed of effect. But out of that suit arose a cross-suit, which has been productive of a long and troublesome litigation between the parties,' the general outlines of…
1Opinion of the CourtMoncure, J.
After stating' the case he proceeded :
The plaintiff prayed for and obtained an appeal from the decrees made in the cause, or such of them as he complained of in his petition, assigning many errors therein, which we will proceed to consider. *And first he complains of the decree of July 29th, 1856, as erroneous in several respects, as first in sustaining the exception of the defendants to the commissioner’s report; second, in deciding that the bill- of the plaintiff was a bill of discovery; and third, in regard to the principles ■ and extent of the liability of the defendants for the…
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