DeVoss v. City of Richmond
Supreme Court of Virginia
In December, 1866, the City of Richmond filed a bill against E. W. DeVoss, R. H. Maury & Co. and Asa Otis, in which it was stated that there were then outstanding two bonds of the city, each for the same sum of twenty-three hundred dollars, of the funded debt of the city, one of which was held by Otis and the other by DeVoss. The *plaintiff was advised that the bond held by Otis was valid, and that the bond held by DeVoss was not a valid claim against the city.
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In December, 1866, the City of Richmond filed a bill against E. W. DeVoss, R. H. Maury & Co. and Asa Otis, in which it was stated that there were then outstanding two bonds of the city, each for the same sum of twenty-three hundred dollars, of the funded debt of the city, one of which was held by Otis and the other by DeVoss. The *plaintiff was advised that the bond held by Otis was valid, and that the bond held by DeVoss was not a valid claim against the city. That Otis, who was a citizen of Massachusetts prior to the late war, held the bond of the city No. 7, for the sum of twenty-three…
1Opinion of the CourtJoynes, J.
The only point decided by the Circuit Court was, that the bond held by DeVoss , imposed no valid obligation *on the city, and the propriety of that decision is the only question upon which our decision has been invoked.
The bill proceeds upon the assumption that the decree of the court of the Confederate States, by which the bond held by Otis is alleged to have been sequestered and confiscated, and in pursuance of which it was sold, did not protect the city against his claim, after the suppression of the Confederate Government. This assumption is controverted by the answer of DeVoss, which…
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