Commonwealth v. Hurt
Supreme Court of Virginia
Error to judgment of corporation court of Lynchburg, rendered December 12th, 1888, upon the petition of S. C. Hurt against the Commonwealth under sections 406, 401, and 408 of the Code of 1881, for the identification and verification of coupons. The judgment being against the Commonwealth, she obtained a writ of error and supersedeas. Opinion states the case.
1Opinion of the Court
Lewis, P.,
delivered the opinion of the court.
This was a proceeding in the corporation court for the city of Lynchburg, to try the question as to whether certain alleged tax-receivable coupons, which had theretofore been tendered by the plaintiff to John W. Bransford, treasurer of the said city, in payment of certain taxes due by the plaintiff to the Commonwealth, were genuine coupons and legally receivable for *919such taxes. The proceeding was under sections 406, 407, 408, and 412 of the Code. The last-mentioned section enacts as follows:
“Where any paper, purporting to he a coupon cut from a…
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