Legal Opinion

Fitzhugh v. Love's ex'or

Court of Appeals of Virginia

Decided April 15, 1806PublishedCited by 37 opinions

Samuel Love instituted an action of debt in the district court of Fredericksburg, against Philip Fitzhugh and Presley Thornton, and declared for “¡£272. 15. sterling, the balance due on a bill for £ 1100 sterling, being the principal of a protested bill of exchange, together with damages thereon at the rate of fifteen per centum, charges of protest amounting to £2. 12. 9. sterling, and interest on the said principal at the rate of five per centum per annum, from the 8th day…

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Samuel Love instituted an action of debt in the district court of Fredericksburg, against Philip Fitzhugh and Presley Thornton, and declared for “¡£272. 15. sterling, the balance due on a bill for £ 1100 sterling, being the principal of a protested bill of exchange, together with damages thereon at the rate of fifteen per centum, charges of protest amounting to £2. 12. 9. sterling, and interest on the said principal at the rate of five per centum per annum, from the 8th day of January, 1795, until the said principal shall be fully paid.”' The declaration charges that Philip Fitzhugh on the…

1Opinion of the Court

Tucker, Judge.

The declaration charges, that Philip Fitzhugh drew a bill of exchange in favour of Samuel Love, or order, on certain persons in Great Britain. That after-wards, on the same day, Presley Thornton, at the special instance ¡and request of the said Philip, and in order to give a credit to the said bill of exchange, and to induce Love to receive it from Fitzhugh, and in consideration of Love’s paying to Fitzhugh the value in current money, and actually *9received by Fitzhugh, did, by his endorsement, made on the said bill, according to the custom of merchants, endorse the same for…

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