Ragsdale v. Hagy
Supreme Court of Virginia
In October 1840 Martin Hagy obtained from the judge of the Circuit court of Washington county an injunction to two judgments recovered against him in that court, one by Lewis Smith as assignee of John Snead, and the other by Greenway & Co. as assignees of the same party.
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In October 1840 Martin Hagy obtained from the judge of the Circuit court of Washington county an injunction to two judgments recovered against him in that court, one by Lewis Smith as assignee of John Snead, and the other by Greenway & Co. as assignees of the same party. The bill charges that the plaintiff, on the 3d of August 1839, purchased of John Snead and John Ragsdale a piece of land, part of a tract descended from Benjamin Clark, at the price of eight dollars per acre, for which they executed to him their bond with condition to make him a good title. That on the 26th of the same month,…
1Opinion of the CourtAllen, J.
The final decree allowed to the appellee Hagy certain offsets against the Iwo bonds executed by him to Snead, for the purchase money of the 100 acres of land. The bonds were dated according to the allegations *of the bill, on the 26th and 27th of August 1839; and were assigned, one of them to Greenway & Co. and the other to L. Smith on the 29th of the same month. Suits seem to have been brought by the assignees, immediately after the notes became payable. No defence was made to the action at law, and the office judgments being confirmed, the appellee during the same term of the court,…
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