Wright v. Agelasto
Supreme Court of Virginia
Error to a judgment of the Court of Law and Chancery of the city of Norfolk in an action of assumpsit. Judgment for the plaintiff. Defendant assigns error. The opinion states the case.
1Opinion of the Court
Keith, P.,
delivered the opinion of the court.
The defendant in error, Agelasto, as trustee in bankruptcy of the Chesapeake Furniture and Wood Working Company, sued Peter Wright in the Court of Law and Chancery of the city of Norfolk to recover a subscription to fifteen shares of stock of the Norfolk Furniture Company, of the par value of $100 per share, subscribed to upon the condition “that $15,000 bona fide subscriptions are gotten.”
The defendant pleaded non-assumpsit, and a jury being impaneled, found a verdict for the plaintiff and assessed his damages at $1,500-. The defendant moved the…
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