Richardson v. Planters Bank of Farmville
Supreme Court of Virginia
Error to a judgment of the Circuit Court of Prince Edward county, rendered April 12, 1894, in an action of assumpsit wherein the plaintiff in error was the plaintiff, and the defendant in error was the defendant.
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Error to a judgment of the Circuit Court of Prince Edward county, rendered April 12, 1894, in an action of assumpsit wherein the plaintiff in error was the plaintiff, and the defendant in error was the defendant. After the evidence was in, the plaintiff tendered the following instructions: Instruction “No. 9.” “The court instructs the jury that they must disregard all of the parol evidence of the witnesses in this case as to what occurred before or at the time of the execution by W. G. Yenable, cashier, of the receipt given to W. H. Richardson, on the 4th of March, 1892, and set out in the…
1Opinion of the CourtRiely, J.
During the examination into the fitness of the jurors summoned for the case, they were asked by the counsel for the plaintiff if any of them were indebted to the defendant, the Planters Bank of Farmville. The counsel for the defendant objected to the question, and the court sustained the objection, and refused to permit the question to be answered. This was assigned as error.'
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