Filler v. Tyler
Supreme Court of Virginia
Argued at Bichmond. Decided at Wytheville. Appeal from two decrees of the Circuit Court of Loudoun county, one pronounced May 2, 1891, and the other Jauuary 19, 1892, in a suit in chancery wherein the appellee, Virginia H. Tyler, who sues by H. A. Hall, her next friend, was the complainant, and the appellant, Armistead T. M. Filler and others, were the defendants.
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Argued at Bichmond. Decided at Wytheville. Appeal from two decrees of the Circuit Court of Loudoun county, one pronounced May 2, 1891, and the other Jauuary 19, 1892, in a suit in chancery wherein the appellee, Virginia H. Tyler, who sues by H. A. Hall, her next friend, was the complainant, and the appellant, Armistead T. M. Filler and others, were the defendants. This was a suit in chancery, instituted in the Circuit Court of Loudoun county by Virginia H. Tyler, who sues by H. A. Hall, her next friend, against Bobert B. Wildman and others, defendants. The bill charges that three judgments…
1Opinion of the CourtBuchanan, J.
The first question to he disposed of upon this appeal,-is, whether or not this court has jurisdiction of it.
The appellant is the owner of two debts evidenced by judgments, neither of which amount to the sum of $500, but together amount to more than that sum. When the suit was instituted he was the owner of only one of the judgments, but before the decree was rendered in the cause settling the rights of the parties, he had become the owner of the other judgment by assignment. It is alleged in the pleadings of the appellees that the assignment was not made in good faith, but was obtained merely…
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