Corrman & Brurry v. Mlller & Co.
Supreme Court of Virginia
This was an action of debt in the Circuit court of' Rockingham county, brought by Daniel Miller & Co. of Baltimore, against Coffman & Bruffy, partners, as makers, and E. & D. W. Coffman, as endorsers of a negotiable note for $2,129.85, dated the 15th of June-1869, and payable the 1st day of June 1870 at the First Rational Bank of Harrisonburg, in Virginia. The defendants pleaded payment and usury, on which pleas, issues were made up.
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This was an action of debt in the Circuit court of' Rockingham county, brought by Daniel Miller & Co. of Baltimore, against Coffman & Bruffy, partners, as makers, and E. & D. W. Coffman, as endorsers of a negotiable note for $2,129.85, dated the 15th of June-1869, and payable the 1st day of June 1870 at the First Rational Bank of Harrisonburg, in Virginia. The defendants pleaded payment and usury, on which pleas, issues were made up. On the trial the court gave nine instructions to the jury, which were not excepted to-by either party; and there was a verdict for the plaintiff. The defendants…
1Opinion of the CourtChristian, J.
This is a writ of error to a judgment of the Circuit court of Rockingham county.
The facts disclosed by the record, so far as they are necessary to be adverted to, are as follows:
Daniel Miller & Co. were wholesale merchants, residing and doing business in the city of Baltimore. Coffman & Bruffy were retail merchants in Harrison-burg, and became largely indebted to Daniel Miller & Co., evidenced by notes made at different times, and aggregating on the 5th February 1868 to the sum of $7,911.37. '
On that day, in full settlement of this indebtedness, Coffman & Bruffy transferred certain claims and…
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