Evans v. Joyner

This is a controversy between successive assignees of the sum of $875 deposited by Withers Scofield Essex with the Commissioner of the Division of Motor Vehicles under the provisions of Code, sec. 46-436, as security for the payment of any claim filed, or judgment obtained, against Essex growing out of an automobile accident in which he was involved on November 5, 1949. No claim was filed with the Commissioner, nor was any action instituted against Essex for damages, within a year from the date of the accident and, therefore, it became the duty of the Treasurer of Virginia, with whom the…