Carrington v. Ficklin's ex'or
Supreme Court of Virginia
This was an action of assumpsit in the circuit court of the city of Bichmond, brought in June, 1863, by B. F. Ficklin’s executor'against Eugene Carrington, to recover the amount of a bill of exchange for four hundred and twenty pounds sterling, which B. F. Ficklin had drawn upon De La Bue, of the city of London, for the acconi - modation of Carrington, which had been accepted and paid by Le La Bue. The bill bore date March 15th, 1,864, and was payable sixty days after sight.
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This was an action of assumpsit in the circuit court of the city of Bichmond, brought in June, 1863, by B. F. Ficklin’s executor'against Eugene Carrington, to recover the amount of a bill of exchange for four hundred and twenty pounds sterling, which B. F. Ficklin had drawn upon De La Bue, of the city of London, for the acconi - modation of Carrington, which had been accepted and paid by Le La Bue. The bill bore date March 15th, 1,864, and was payable sixty days after sight. At the time Carrington received this draft, he gave to Ficklin a receipt for it (describing it) as “ being an advance…
1Opinion of the CourtBurks, J.
This is the second time this case has been before this court on a writ of error allowed the defendant. On a new trial had, as ordered, after the cause had been remanded, the defendant excepted to rulings of the court, which are the basis of two assignments of error. The first is the refusal of the^court to give to the jury instruction No. 2 in the form as prayed and the giving of that instruction with an addition made by the court. The second is the refusal of the court, on the motion of the defendant, to set aside the verdict of the jury and grant him a new trial, on the ground that the…
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