Persinger's Adm'r v. Chapman
Supreme Court of Virginia
Error to a judgment of the Circuit Court of Roanoke county, rendered October 3, 1892, in action of debt, wherein the plaintiff in error was the plaintiff, and the defendant in error and another were the defendants.
1Opinion of the CourtCardwell, J.
*350This is an action of debt brought by the personal representative of James S. Persinger, deceased, in the Circuit Court of Roanoke county, on a bond executed by F. J. Chapman and F. Rorer, his surety, to the plaintiff’s testator in his lifetime, for the sum of $1,250, bearing date February 13, 1883, and payable six months after date, with interest.
At the trial the defendant, Chapman, tendered his special plea in writing in the nature of a plea of equitable set-off, the substance of which is that the bond sued on was executed under a mistake, in payment for twenty-four acres of land in Roanoke…
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