Quynn v. Staines
General Court of Virginia
THIS was a bill filed to obtain an injunction, and was filed in this court because the chancellor was interested. The bill stated that Francis Sprang, and Elizabeth his wife, being seised of lot No. A. in the city of Annapolis, sold and conveyed the same to Nathan Hammond, by deed, dated 13th July, 1759. That Francis Sprang died in the year 1772, and the said Elizabeth, his wife, after-wards, in 1773, intermarried with Thomas Staines.
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THIS was a bill filed to obtain an injunction, and was filed in this court because the chancellor was interested. The bill stated that Francis Sprang, and Elizabeth his wife, being seised of lot No. A. in the city of Annapolis, sold and conveyed the same to Nathan Hammond, by deed, dated 13th July, 1759. That Francis Sprang died in the year 1772, and the said Elizabeth, his wife, after-wards, in 1773, intermarried with Thomas Staines. That Nathan Hammond sold and conveyed the said lotto Thomas Rutland, on the 14th March, 1760. That the said Rut-land entered and possessed the same for eleven…
1Opinion of the Court
Decree, by Judges Goldsborough and J. T. Chase,(a)
that the injunction heretofore issued in this cause, be dissolved as to all such sums of money, due from the said John Rogers, his executors and administrators, on account of the purchase of the houses and lot mentioned in the said bill of complaint, except as to the sum of 150/. current money, the value of the buildings erected on the said lot by Bennet Chew, and that, as to the said sum of 150/. current money, the said injunction heretofore issued in this cause, to prohibit the payment thereof, be and is hereby ordered to stand and remain,…
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