Church v. Goshen Iron Co.
Supreme Court of Virginia
Error to a judgment of the Circuit Court of Augusta county in a proceeding upon a distress warrant for rent. Judgment for the plaintiff. Defendants assign error.
1Opinion of the CourtWhittle, J.
This writ of error is to a final order upon a distress warrant for rent, under Virginia Code, 1904, Ch. 127. Upon the hearing, the plaintiff in error, Church, the alleged tenant, resisted the demand on several grounds, while his co-plaintiff in error, the Good Roads Machinery Company, set up its ownership of the property levied on by interpleader. A jury was waived and the whole matter was submitted to the court, which held the property liable to distress, and ascertaining the rent due to be $510, gave judgment for that sum, and likewise ordered a sale of so much of the property distrained as…
2Cases cited2 opinions
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