Builders Supply Company of Hopewell, Inc. v. Piedmont Lumber Co.
Supreme Court of Virginia
Error to a judgment of the Corporation Court of the city of Hopewell, in an action of assumpsit. Judgment for plaintiffs. Defendant assigns error.
1Opinion of the CourtPrentis, J.
These two cases, present precisely similar questions, and by stipulation of counsel have been argued together. The Piedmont Lumber Company, Inc., and the Peerless Lumber Company, Inc. (hereinafter called the plaintiffs), instituted separate actions against the Builders Supply Company of Hopewell, Inc. (hereinafter called the defendant), in the Corporation Court of Hopewell, Va., which resulted in separate judgments against the defendant.
*227• The question involved is whether or not the Corporation Court of the city of Hopewell had jurisdiction of the actions. It appears that, at the time the…
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