Edmonson & Reekes v. Potts' Administrator
Supreme Court of Virginia
Error to a judgment of the Circuit Court of Mecklenburg •county in an action of debt. Judgment for the defendant. Plaintiffs assign error.
1Opinion of the CourtBuchanan, J.
The material question involved in this case, and the only •one that it is necessary to decide, in the view we take of the *80case, is whether or not the notice to sue, relied on by the defendant as barring the plaintiffs’ right of recovery, was. sufficient under the provisions of section 2890 of the Code of 1904.
That section, so far as relevant to this case, is as follows: “The surety or guarantor or endorser (or his committee or personal representative) of any person bound by any contract may, if a right of action has accrued thereon, require the creditor, or his committee or personal…
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