Dorrier v. Masters
Supreme Court of Virginia
Argued at Richmond. Decided at Wytlieville. Error to judgment of the circuit court of the city of' Richmond, rendered June 6th, 1885, in an action at law by attachment, by F. M. Masters, S. Groves, J. B. Williams and S. D. Williams against Josiah Harris, a non-resident, to' recover $5,000 damages for breach of contract.
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Argued at Richmond. Decided at Wytlieville. Error to judgment of the circuit court of the city of' Richmond, rendered June 6th, 1885, in an action at law by attachment, by F. M. Masters, S. Groves, J. B. Williams and S. D. Williams against Josiah Harris, a non-resident, to' recover $5,000 damages for breach of contract. During the progress of the action a controversy arose between the plaintiffs and William Dorrier and other attaching credit- ' ors of Harris as to the priorities of their several levies under Code 1873, oh. 148, § 25, and the decision was adverse "to Dorrier and others, and…
1Opinion of the CourtEichardson, J.
This action was brought on the twentieth day of September, 1884. On the same day the plaintiffs in the action sued out an attachment, under the first section of chapter 148 of the Code of 1873, against the estate of the said -Josiah Harris, which went into the hands of the sheriff of the city of Eichmond, at 11 o’clock A. M. on said twentieth day of September, 1884. The plaintiffs did not give the bond provided for by the eighth section of said chapter, so as to authorize the seizure of any estate of the defendant levied on. On said attachment the sheriff made return as follows, to-wit:
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