Pace v. Pace's Adm'r
Supreme Court of Virginia
Appeal from a decree of the Corporation Court of the city of Danville, pronounced March 16, 1896, in a suit in chancery wherein John R. Pace’s administrator and others were the complainants, and Sallie A. Pace and others were the defendants, in which suit appellant proved his debt.
1Opinion of the CourtHarrison, J.
The facts of this case in brief are that on April 7, 1893, one T. J. Talbott (under the name of Pace, Talbott & Co.), John R. *793Pace and James B. Pace, made a note for sixteen thousand dollars, payable to William P. Cheek, or order, one hundred and twenty days after date. T. J. Talbott was the principal in the note, and John R. Pace and James B. Pace co-sureties. T. J. Talbott died in the fall of 1894 entirely insolvent. Prior to his death, to-wit: On October 9, 1893, John R. Pace died leaving an estate not sufficient to pay more than fifty cents on the dollar of his debts. In May, 1894, this…
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