Isaacs, Taylor & Williams v. City of Richmond
Supreme Court of Virginia
Argued at Richmond. Decided at Wytheville. Appeal from decree of the chancery court of the city of Richmond, rendered November 23,1889, in a suit wherein the .city was complainant, and Isaacs, Taylor & Williams and others were defendants. Opinion states the case.
1Opinion of the Court
Leayis, P.,
delivered the opinion of the court.
This was a suit in the chancery court of the city of Richmond, to restrain the prosecution of a number of pending actions at law against the city on certain small notes issued by *31the city during the late civil war. These notes were all under the denomination of five dollars, and were designed to circulate as currency. Some of them were issued under an ordinance of the council, passed on the 19th of April, 1861. The others were issued under an ordinance passed on the 14th of April, 1862. The aggregate amount of both issues exceeded $500,000.
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