Alex., Loud., & Hamp. R. R. v. Burke
Supreme Court of Virginia
This case was argued in Richmond at the March term, and was decided at Wytheville at the June term. This is an appeal from a decree of the Circuit court of Alexandria county.
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This case was argued in Richmond at the March term, and was decided at Wytheville at the June term. This is an appeal from a decree of the Circuit court of Alexandria county. The facts of the ease, so far as it is material to state them, seem to be substantially • these: Sometime previous to June 1861, the Alexandria, Loudoun & Hampshire Railroad Company borrowed of the Exchange Bank of Virginia, at their office of discount and deposit at Alexandria, ten thousand dollars, for which they executed their note, and at the same time, as collateral security for the payment thereof, they deposited…
1Opinion of the Court
Moncure, P.
delivered the opinion of the court. After stating the case he proceeded:
In the petition of appeal various errors in the decree are assigned, but it will be necessary to notice only a few of them. The counsel for the appellants contended that the State court, and not the Federal court, had jurisdiction of the controversy, and in this view we concur with the counsel. It sufficiently appears in the record that before the appointment of Camp as receiver, and while he was acting as trustee, he transferred the note and bonds to Burke, Herbert & Co., whose duty it thenceforward became to…
2Cases cited1 opinion
- Exchange Bank v. KnoxSupreme Court of Virginia · 1870
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