Royall's administrators v. Johnson
Supreme Court of Virginia
This was an appeal from the Richmond chancery court. The case is fully stated and discussed in the following opinions.
1Opinion of the Court
May 6.
Judge Green.
The appellants, on the 4th of June, 1803, filed their bill against Gregory Johnson and Thomas Goode, who had severally obtained judgments against them as administrators of J. E. Royall, deceased, seeking to injoin any further proceedings upon those judgments, upon the ground, that since the rendition of the judgments, suits had been brought and were depending against them for the recovery of the whole estate of which their intestate died possessed, by a title paramount to his. The injunction was awarded by chancellor Wythe. Goode answered, and relied, that his debt was of…
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