Dillard & McCorkle v. Dunlop
Supreme Court of Virginia
Error to judgment of circuit court of Amherst county, rendered at its October term, 1884, in two actions at law, in one of which James S. Dillard and W. E. McCorkle, partners as Dillard & McCorkle, are plaintiffs, and in the other David Earn and John Hickson, partners as Earn & Hick-son, are plaintiffs, and Thomas Dunlop was defendant in both.
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Error to judgment of circuit court of Amherst county, rendered at its October term, 1884, in two actions at law, in one of which James S. Dillard and W. E. McCorkle, partners as Dillard & McCorkle, are plaintiffs, and in the other David Earn and John Hickson, partners as Earn & Hick-son, are plaintiffs, and Thomas Dunlop was defendant in both. The verdict and judgment in each case being for the defendant, the plaintiffs asked for new trials, which being denied, certificates of the facts were asked for and refused; and certificates of the evidence being then requested, the trial judge required…
1Opinion of the CourtKichardson, J.
The record presents the following very remarkable case in practice: At the October term, 1884, of the circuit court of Amherst county there were pending two cases .at law, on attachments, in one of which James S. Dillard and W. E. McCorkle partners, as Dillard & McCorkle, were plaintiffs, and Thomas Dunlop, defendant; and in the other, David Earn and John Hickson partners, as Earn & Hick-son, were plaintiffs, and said Dunlop, defendant. Such proceedings were had that said two cases came on and were tried together at the October term, 1884 (to-wit: on the fifteenth of October, 1884), of said…
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