Higginbotham's Ex'x v. Commonwealth

This is a writ of error to a judgment of the Circuit court of the city of Richmond, dismissing with costs a petition of the plaintiff in error, filed in said court, to recover a debt alleged to be due to the petitioner from the State of Virginia.

The case was briefly this: — The plaintiff in error, and petitioner below, is executrix of David Higginbotham, deceased, who was owner of twelve shares of stock in the Old James River Company. By an amendment to the charter of that company, passed on the 17th day of February 1820, and duly accepted by the company, the companj--became the agent of the…