Jeter v. Langhorne
Supreme Court of Virginia
Ira Jeter having recovered a judgment in the Circuit Court of Roanoke, against William Langhorne for upwards of 9000 dollars, subject to certain credits, Langhorne, on the 27th of March 1844, obtained an injunction to the judgment.
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Ira Jeter having recovered a judgment in the Circuit Court of Roanoke, against William Langhorne for upwards of 9000 dollars, subject to certain credits, Langhorne, on the 27th of March 1844, obtained an injunction to the judgment. On the 27th of August following, the Court dissolved the injunction, and at the same time suspended the decree for sixty days, to enable Langhorne to apply for an appeal to this Court, upon his executing a bond with security in the penalty of 10,000 dollars, with condition as prescribed by the statute. Langhorne thereupon applied for and obtained an appeal to this…
1Opinion of the CourtBaldwin, J.
Our law giving damages on the dissolution of injunctions has been uniformly the same, from the first enactment on the subject down to the present time.
The act of the 20th of January 1804, provides that “ Where any injunction shall be hereafter obtained, to stay the proceedings on any judgment rendered in any of the Courts of this Commonwealth, for money or to*195bacco, and such injunction shall be dissolved wholly or in part, damages at the rate of ten per centum per annum from the time the injunction was awarded, until the dissolution, shall be paid to the party on whose behalf such judgment was…
2Cases cited1 opinion
- Eppes v. ThurmanCourt of Appeals of Virginia · 1826
3Cited by2 opinions
- State ex rel. Mason v. Harper's Ferry Bridge Co.West Virginia Supreme Court · 1879
- Bailey v. McCormickWest Virginia Supreme Court · 1883