Gordon v. Rixey
Supreme Court of Virginia
Appeal from decree of circuit court of Nelson county, in two suits consolidated and heard together, in first whereof John H. Rixey, assignee of Richard L. Patterson, was plaintiff, and W. P. Hall, T. L. Bondurant, A. J. Bondurant, A. Moseley, G. Moseley and R. L. Patterson were defendants; and in second whereof Douglass H. Gordon was plaintiff, and the plaintiff and the defendants in first suit, with the executors of T. M. Bondurant, deceased, were defendants.
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Appeal from decree of circuit court of Nelson county, in two suits consolidated and heard together, in first whereof John H. Rixey, assignee of Richard L. Patterson, was plaintiff, and W. P. Hall, T. L. Bondurant, A. J. Bondurant, A. Moseley, G. Moseley and R. L. Patterson were defendants; and in second whereof Douglass H. Gordon was plaintiff, and the plaintiff and the defendants in first suit, with the executors of T. M. Bondurant, deceased, were defendants. In September, 1867, J. H. Rixey, as assignee of R. L. Patterson, recovered in circuit court of Buckingham, judgment for $8,493.80…
1Opinion of the CourtStaples, J.
The court has not been favored with an oral discussion in this case. It has, however, had the benefit of an able and exhaustive argument in printed briefs by counsel on both sides. The questions arising upon the record have received at our hands that careful consideration demanded as well by the amount in controversy as by the importance of the principles involved. The facts are few and simple, and in the main uncontroverted.
It is conceded that the appellee’s judgment against Moseley and Bondurant, although recovered in September, 1867; was not docketed until the 5th of March, 1869. It is…
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