Richardson v. J. S. Hoskins Lumber Co.
Supreme Court of Virginia
Appeal from a decree of the Circuit Court of Mathews county, with an ancillary attachment. Judgment for the defendant. Plaintiff assigns error.
1Opinion of the CourtWhittee, J.
The single question presented by this record involves the action of the circuit court in quashing an attachment against-*756real estate on the ground that the sheriff’s return ivas insufficient.
Virginia Code, 1904, section 2967, prescribes that such return shall be to the following effect: “Levied on the following real estate of the defendant A. B. (or A. B. and C. D.) to-wit: (Here describe the estate), this the day of .”
In construing this statute in Raub v. Otterback, 92 Va. 517, 23 S. E. 883 (where the estate Avas described as “a cotningent interest, in the red estate of Philip Otterback,…
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