Moss v. Moss's Administrator
Supreme Court of Virginia
THE record in this case stated that lames Moss, executor J of lames Moss, deceased, sued out of the Clerk’s office of ** Mince Edward District Court, a capias against Francis Moss, Stephen Moss, William Moss, Spiers, Richard Davenport and Peter Guerrant in a plea of debt for one thousand dollars, damage twenty dollars, returnable to -áprz'/ term, 1801; that the same was returned executed on the defendants Peter Guerrant and William Moss, a copy was left fop the defendant…
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THE record in this case stated that lames Moss, executor J of lames Moss, deceased, sued out of the Clerk’s office of ** Mince Edward District Court, a capias against Francis Moss, Stephen Moss, William Moss, Spiers, Richard Davenport and Peter Guerrant in a plea of debt for one thousand dollars, damage twenty dollars, returnable to -áprz'/ term, 1801; that the same was returned executed on the defendants Peter Guerrant and William Moss, a copy was left fop the defendant Francis Moss, (he not being found,■ and the defendants Stephen Moss, John Spiers and Richard Davenport, were returned no…
1Opinion of the Court
Judge Tucker.
The appellee, James Moss, brought an action of debt in the District Court of Prince Edward., against the appellants, upon an obligation to himself as administrator of James Moss, deceased ; the writ was returned executed on Peter Guerrant and V/ilUar,i Moss, two only, of six defendants named in the writ; a copy left for Francis Moss, another of the defendants, he being not found ; and the three other defendants were returned no inhabitants of Buckingham County, to which the writ appears to have been directed.
At rules held in the office on the appearance day, a conditional…
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