Stovall v. Commonwealth
Supreme Court of Virginia
Error to judgment of corporation court of Danville, rendered January 22d, 1887, in an action of debt on the official bond of C. H. Ingles as treasurer of Henry county, wherein the Commonwealth, as the relation of John ~W. Tuggle, was plaintiff, and C. H. Ingles, John T. Stovall and others, were defendants. The judgment on the issue joined being in favor of the plaintiff, the defendant, Stovall, obtained a writ of error and supersedeas.
1Opinion of the CourtLacy, J.
This is a writ of error to a judgment of the corporation court of Danville, rendered on the twenty-second of January, 1887. The case is as follows: On the teiith day of December, 1880, the plaintiff in error executed a power of attorney to George D. Graveley, by which he constituted said Graveley his “ attorney in fact to affix his signature and seal, to the amount of twenty-five thousand dollars, as surety to any bond which C. H. Ingles, treasurer of Henry county, might thereafter be' required by the judge or court of said county to give for the faithful discharge of his duties as…
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