Lucas v. Clafflin & Co.
Supreme Court of Virginia
Error to judgment of corporation court of Alexandria, rendered 23d April, 1878, in action of Robert T. Lucas, sergeant, &c. (for use of ¥m. L. Allen, trustee), against Horace B. Clafflin, Edward C. Eames, Horace J. Fairchild, Wm. S. Dunn, Dexter JST. Force, Daniel Robinson, and John Clafflin, partners under firm name of H.' B. Clafflin & Co.; Augustus-D. Juillard, Gustavus Landsburg, James Landsburg, and H. O. Claughton.
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Error to judgment of corporation court of Alexandria, rendered 23d April, 1878, in action of Robert T. Lucas, sergeant, &c. (for use of ¥m. L. Allen, trustee), against Horace B. Clafflin, Edward C. Eames, Horace J. Fairchild, Wm. S. Dunn, Dexter JST. Force, Daniel Robinson, and John Clafflin, partners under firm name of H.' B. Clafflin & Co.; Augustus-D. Juillard, Gustavus Landsburg, James Landsburg, and H. O. Claughton. It was an action on an indemnifying-bond, and verdict and judgment were for the defendants, and the plaintiffs obtained from one of the judges of this court a writ of error.…
1Opinion of the CourtAnderson, J.
James M. Stewart, a merchant of the city of Alexandria, Virginia, was sued in the corporation court of said city by H. B. Clafflin & Co., creditors of said Stewart. Judgment was rendered against him, and an execution of fieri facias sued out thereon, amounting to $7,710.29, including the •costs attending it, which was levied upon property inventoried and described in a schedule marked A. The said property, consisting of the entire stock of dry goods and store furniture of said Stewart, except what he had set apart for his homestead, had been conveyed by him pending the suit, and before…
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