Strother's Administratrix v. Strother
Supreme Court of Virginia
Appeal from a decree in chancery cf the Corporation Court of the City of Lynchburg. Decree for complainant. Defendant appeals.
1Opinion of the CourtBuchanan, J.
The first error assigned is to the action of the court in overruling the demurrer to the bill.
The specific ground of demurrer assigned in the trial court was that the bill “is multifarious, in that it undertakes to assert in the same suit two separate and distinct claims: (1) the claim' of Sidney Strother in his own right for a balance due him on a settlement of the partnership accounts of the firm of W. A. Strother & Son; and (2) a claim of the said Strother as administrator of Jennie L. Strother, deceased, against said firm of *427W. A. Strother & Son, this claim being merely a claim for a debt…
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