Beverly v. Rhodes
Supreme Court of Virginia
Appeal from decree of circuit court of Loudoun county, rendered October 25, 1887, in the cause wherein Mary A. Rhodes was complainant, and John Williams, administrator of John Gray, deceased, J. B. Beverly in his own right and as executor of Wm. Beverly, deceased, Charles P. Janney, administrator, d. b. n. of Robert W. Gray, deceased, and others were defendants. The decree being favorable to the complainant, J. B. Beverly, he appealed. Opinion states the case.
1Opinion of the Court
Lewis, P.,
delivered the opinion of the court.
The appellee filed her hill in the circuit court of Loudoun county, against the personal representatives of John Gray, William Beverly, and Robert W. Gray, deceased obligors in a bond for $2,000, executed on the 22d of February, 1872, to L. W. S. Hough, payable three years after date, and subsequently assigned by Hough to the complainant as collateral security for a debt of $2,000, due to her by the firm of Hough & Gray. The prayer of the bill was that all proper accounts he taken; that payment of the bond be decreed, and for general relief.
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