Legal Opinion
Buchanan v. Buchanan
Supreme Court of Virginia
Decided January 8, 1940No. Record No. 2200PublishedCited by 20 opinions
1Opinion of the CourtHolt, J.
This case is a sequel of Buchanan v. Buchanan, 170 Va. 458, 197 S. E. 426, 116 A. L. R. 688. In the present suit the trial court sustained a demurrer to the bill of complaint and dismissed it. The plaintiff, Ruth Lester Buchanan, has appealed.
The bill is voluminous, covering twenty-five pages of the printed record. Its sufficiency as a statement of a cause of action of which a court of equity has jurisdiction is the question presented, and it seems necessary to here set forth the bill’s allegations. Condensed and otherwise simplified, yet preserving their gist, they are as follows:
I. That the…
2Cases cited17 opinions
- Buchanan v. BuchananSupreme Court of Virginia · 1938
- Sinclair v. YoungSupreme Court of Virginia · 1902
- Feckheimer v. National Exchange BankSupreme Court of Virginia · 1884
- Richmond Railway & Electric Co. v. BrownSupreme Court of Virginia · 1899
- Moore v. CrutchfieldSupreme Court of Virginia · 1923
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3Cited by20 opinions
- Southwest Virginia Hospitals, Inc. v. LippsSupreme Court of Virginia · 1951
- Collins v. Lyon, Inc.Supreme Court of Virginia · 1943
- McClaugherty v. McClaughertySupreme Court of Virginia · 1942
- White v. WhiteSupreme Court of Virginia · 1943
- Waskey v. LewisSupreme Court of Virginia · 1982
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