Birchett v. Bolling
Supreme Court of Virginia
IN October 1807, Robert Bolling, thirteen other individuals, and five mercantile companies agreed to build on a Lot of his in Petersburg, (which be sold to the association for the purpose,) an elegant Tavern, to be called the “ Columbian Hotel,” at their joint expence and risk, and for their joint benefit, the cost of the building and out-houses, by a rough estimate, was to be $18,000; that of the Lot was $2000, which Bolling subscribed as his proportion of stock in the…
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IN October 1807, Robert Bolling, thirteen other individuals, and five mercantile companies agreed to build on a Lot of his in Petersburg, (which be sold to the association for the purpose,) an elegant Tavern, to be called the “ Columbian Hotel,” at their joint expence and risk, and for their joint benefit, the cost of the building and out-houses, by a rough estimate, was to be $18,000; that of the Lot was $2000, which Bolling subscribed as his proportion of stock in the firm. The whole sum subscribed was divided into forty shares, of five hundred dollars each, to be held in fee simple by the…
1Opinion of the Court
March 34, 1817,
Judge Roans
pronounced the Court’s opinion, as follows ;
*456“ The Court is of opinion that the first Decree is correct, which provides that the agreement among the proceedings should be carried into specific execution, and in effect allows that that execution may be perfected, on application to the Court, from time to time, by any of the parties interested, by means of an account or accounts, the sale of shares, or otherwise ; as to all which, the Decree is considered as only interlocutory. But the Court is of opinion, that the Decree upon the attachment is erroneous, as it subjects…
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