Switzer v. Noffsinger
Supreme Court of Virginia
Appeal from decree of circuit court of Botetourt county, rendered November 2, 1884, in the chancery cause wherein Samuel Noffsinger was complainant, and Samuel Burger, administrator of Thomas Switzer and of Jonathan Switzer and others, were defendants. The circuit court decreed that the said Burger, as such administrator, and Ellen, Rufus, Climer, Vara, and Virginia Switzer, widow and heirs of Jonathan Switzer, deceased, pay the complainant $542.20, with interest and costs.
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Appeal from decree of circuit court of Botetourt county, rendered November 2, 1884, in the chancery cause wherein Samuel Noffsinger was complainant, and Samuel Burger, administrator of Thomas Switzer and of Jonathan Switzer and others, were defendants. The circuit court decreed that the said Burger, as such administrator, and Ellen, Rufus, Climer, Vara, and Virginia Switzer, widow and heirs of Jonathan Switzer, deceased, pay the complainant $542.20, with interest and costs. From this decree the said widow and heirs obtained an appeal to this court.
1Opinion of the Court
Lewis, P.,
delivered the opinion of the court.
The case is as follows: On the 15th of June, 1850, William A. Gilliam, as principal, and Thomas Switzer, as surety, executed their bond, payable on demand, to Elizabeth Deisher, for the sum of four hundred dollars. .Afterwards the said Elizabeth Deisher died; whereupon the bond, which remained unpaid, became the property of her husband, Peter Deisher, as her sole distributee. The latter was, on the 22d of April, 1872, indebted to the appellee, Samuel Uoffsinger, in a sum exceeding seven hundred dollars, and in consideration thereof he, on the last…
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