Elliott v. Ashby
Supreme Court of Virginia
Error to a judgment of the Corporation Court of the city of Newport News, upon a motion for a judgment for money. Judgment for the plaintiff. Defendant assigns error. The opinion states the case.
1Opinion of the Court
Keith, P.,
delivered the opinion of the court.
A chancery suit ivas brought by Phipps against the Schulz Brewing Company and others, 'an insolvent corporation, for the payment of its debts, which resulted in an assessment of fourteen per cent, upon the stock subscribed, and C. A. Ashby was appointed a receiver, with direction to bring an action at law in his own name against .the several subscribers for that amount.
Acting under this order, the receiver gave notice of a motion for judgment against J. W. Elliott, which afterwards came on for trial in the Corporation Court of the city of Newport…
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