Hilb v. Peyton
Supreme Court of Virginia
This was au action of covenant in the Circuit court of Augusta county, brought in January 1867, by Simon II. Hilb, for Abram Singer, against J. B. Peyton and three others.
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This was au action of covenant in the Circuit court of Augusta county, brought in January 1867, by Simon II. Hilb, for Abram Singer, against J. B. Peyton and three others. The action was founded on a bond executed by the defendants to Hilb, bearing date the 9th of June 1863, and payable two years after date, for $5,000. The ■ defendants pleaded covenants performed; and on the trial the jury scaled the debt, and found a verdict for the plaintiff for $625 in gold, with interest from the date of the bond. The plaintiff moved the court for a new trial, on the ground that the verdict was contrary…
1Opinion of the CourtChristian, J.
This is a supersedeas to a judgment of the Circuit court of Augusta county.
It was an action of covenant brought upon a contract under seal in the following words :
§5,000. Two years after date, for value received, we promise and bind ourselves jointly and severally, to pay to Simon H. Hilb, his heirs and assignees, the sum of five thousand dollars, without interest, and in such funds as the banks receive and pay out. Witness our hands and seals, &c.
Signed, J. B. Peyton, [Seal.]
Wm. H. Peyton, (Sec.,) [Seal.]
Geo. L. Peyton, “ [Seal.]
Thos. H. Peyton, [Seal.]
Bated June 9th, 1868.
The defendants…
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