Bullock v. Goodall & Clough
Court of Appeals of Virginia
Goodall and Clough filed a bill of injunction in the High Court of Chancery against John Bullock, jun. which stated that Goodall, being Sheriff of Hanover, in May, 1792, a writat fieri facias for 497/. is.
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Goodall and Clough filed a bill of injunction in the High Court of Chancery against John Bullock, jun. which stated that Goodall, being Sheriff of Hanover, in May, 1792, a writat fieri facias for 497/. is. Ill, with interest from 21st: December, 1791, issued from the County Court at the suit of Bullock, against the estate of John Bullock the elder; which was delivered to Clough his deputy, who by virtue thereof took all the effects of the said John Bullode the elder, and that the defendant told the plaintiff that father had no other property. That the defendant bought the same at…
1Opinion of the Court
PENDLETON, President,
delivered the resolution of the Court as follows;
In May, 1792, an execution, for the appellant against the estate of his father, was issued from the County Court of Hanover, returnable to August Court following, and was put into the hands of Clough the Deputy of Goodall the Sheriff, to be executed. He levied it on all the estate of the father which could be found, and sold it at auction,. when the appellant the creditor, became the purchaser of the whole, for 206/. 3s. 6o', for which he endorsed a receipt upon the execution, dated the 22d of May. In May, 1795, Bullock…
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