Bunting v. Cochran
Supreme Court of Virginia
Appeal from two decrees of tlie Circuit Court of Wise county, pronounced December 16, 1898, and December 13, 1899, in a suit iu chancery, wherein Joseph L. Kelley, trustee, was the complainant, and the appellant and the appellees were the defendants. The debt asserted in this case by Bunting was upon a note for $d35, given by Cochran to William S. Stuart for borrowed money, which note, by several successive assignments, had come into the hands of Bunting.
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Appeal from two decrees of tlie Circuit Court of Wise county, pronounced December 16, 1898, and December 13, 1899, in a suit iu chancery, wherein Joseph L. Kelley, trustee, was the complainant, and the appellant and the appellees were the defendants. The debt asserted in this case by Bunting was upon a note for $d35, given by Cochran to William S. Stuart for borrowed money, which note, by several successive assignments, had come into the hands of Bunting. The note was subject to a credit of •$120. Cochran by his answer and cross-bill admitted the note, but claimed that Bunting had defrauded…
1Opinion of the Court
Keith, P.,
delivered the opinion of the court.
Joseph L. Kelly, trustee, filed his bill in the Circuit Court of Wise county, in which he shows that in 1898 C. C. Cochran and wife executed their note, payable in thirty days, to William S. Stuai’t for $4:35, and secured its payment by deed of trust of even date, conveying to Kelly the Big Stone Gap Telephone Exchange, and all lines, franchises and appliances' connected therewith; that by several successive assignments this note was passed to Joseph Bunting, Jr., the holder thereof; that there has been no payment made upon it except the sum of…
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