Steptoe v. Read
Supreme Court of Virginia
This was an action of assumpsit in the Circuit court of Bedford county, brought in January 1857, by Win. J. Read, suing for the benefit of H. D. Mood, against Jesse L. Quarles and John R. Steptoe, as partners doing business under the name and style of Quarles & Steptoe, to recover the sum of five hundred and two •dollars and five cents. The declaration contained only the common counts.
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This was an action of assumpsit in the Circuit court of Bedford county, brought in January 1857, by Win. J. Read, suing for the benefit of H. D. Mood, against Jesse L. Quarles and John R. Steptoe, as partners doing business under the name and style of Quarles & Steptoe, to recover the sum of five hundred and two •dollars and five cents. The declaration contained only the common counts. At the April term of the court the defendants pleaded jointly non-assumpsit; on which plea issue was joined. The cause came on to be tried at the April term of the court for 1859, when there was a verdict and…
1Opinion of the CourtJoynes, J.
This is an action of assumpsit against Steptoe & Quarles as partners. At April term 1857, the defendants pleaded jointly that they did not assume upon themselves in manner and form, &e. Issue was joined upon this plea, and the case was tried upon that issue at April term 1859. When the case was called for trial at that term, Steptoe asked leave •of the court to withdraw the plea previously entered (Quarles making no objection), and ,to file in lieu of it, a plea in his own behalf only; assigning as the reason for the application, that the defence relied upon was that the debt which the action…
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