Potts v. Commonwealth

James Sheppard Potts has filed a petition with this court' seeking a writ of error to a judgment of the Law and Equity Court of the city of Richmond, adjudging him guilty of contempt and fining him the sum of $10.

The incident which precipitated the entry of the judgment complained of arose in this manner: In December, 1943, James Sheppard Potts instituted in the court below an action at law against his brother, Joseph Schoolfield Potts, Jr., to recover the sum of $2,000, with interest thereon from December 20, 1938, alleged to be due under a contract *857whereby the defendant had agreed to…