Stuart v. Commonwealth
Supreme Court of Virginia
Error to a judgment of the Circuit Court of the city of Richmond, rendered April 17, 1894, in a proceeding by motion wherein the Commonwealth was the plaintiff, and the plaintiffs in error the defendants.
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Error to a judgment of the Circuit Court of the city of Richmond, rendered April 17, 1894, in a proceeding by motion wherein the Commonwealth was the plaintiff, and the plaintiffs in error the defendants. This was a motion before the Circuit 'Court of the city of Richmond by the Commonwealth against E. C. S. Hunter, treasurer of King George county, and R. H. Stuart and others, sureties on his official bond as such treasurer, to recover a judgment for $3,119.42, with interest. On the trial of this motion the defendants, severally, filed a number of special pleas, all of which were rejected by…
1Opinion of the Court
Keith, P.,
delivered the opinion of the court.
The Commonwealth of Yirginia, through her Attorney General, served a notice in the Circuit Court of the city of Richmond upon F. C. S. Hunter, treasurer of King George county, and George Turner, R. H. Stuart, Henry H. Hunter, and F. W. Payne, that on June 25, 1892, judgment would be asked for against them for the sum of $3,11.9.42, with interest.
The parties defendant appeared by counsel, and tendered twenty-one special pleas, all of which the court rejected. These pleas may be grouped: (1) Varying forms of the plea of non est factum; (2) pleas…
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