Old Dominion Granite Co. v. Clarke
Supreme Court of Virginia
These were suits in equity in the Richmond chancery court, brought one by William R. Clarke and Harrison E. Woodward, partners, and the other by T. J. Jones and Thomas Knapp, late partners, to subject a tract of land in the county of Chesterfield, to satisfy judgments recovered by them against D. B. 'Bridgford and N. Tinsley Pate, partners under the name and style of Bridgford & Co. The judgments were recovered in the hustings court of the city of Richmond, the one first…
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These were suits in equity in the Richmond chancery court, brought one by William R. Clarke and Harrison E. Woodward, partners, and the other by T. J. Jones and Thomas Knapp, late partners, to subject a tract of land in the county of Chesterfield, to satisfy judgments recovered by them against D. B. 'Bridgford and N. Tinsley Pate, partners under the name and style of Bridgford & Co. The judgments were recovered in the hustings court of the city of Richmond, the one first named in February 1866 for $2,390.76, with interest from the 1st of July 1861, and the other in April .1861 for $1,714.22,…
1Opinion of the CourtStaples, J.
The appellants purchased the land in controversy , from Nelson T. Pate. Before paying the purchase money they caused to be made a diligent search of the proper clerk’s office, to ascertain whether there were then any incumbraces upon the property. They did not search the judgment docket; but their counsel made a careful examination of the index to the docket,, and failed to discover any trace of a judgment against Pate. Thereupon the appellants paid the purchase money and recorded their deed. It now appears that the appellees had recovered judgments-*against D. B. Bridgford and N. Tinsley…
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