Water Front Coal Co. v. Smithfield Marl, Clay and Transportation Co.
Supreme Court of Virginia
Error to a judgment of the Circuit Court of Isle of Wight county in an action of assumpsit, accompanied by an attachment. Judgment for the defendant in the attachment. Plaintiff assigns error.
1Opinion of the Court
Keith, P.,
delivered the opinion of the court.
The Water Front Coal Company brought its action in assumpsit in the Circuit Court of Isle of Wight county in January, 1911, against the Smithfield Marl, Clay and Transportation Company. Process summoning the defendant to appear at February rules was issued, and an attachment was also sued out. Upon the process in the suit the sheriff of Isle of Wight made the following return: •“No officer of the within named Smithfield Marl, Clay and Transportation Company, nor any other person on whom there might be service of the within process, being within my…
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