Preston v. Otey
Supreme Court of Virginia
Error to judgment of circuit court of Montgomery county, rendered May 19th, 1888, in an action for money paid as an accommodation endorser, wherein the plaintiff in error, ’William B. Preston, was plaintiff, G. 0. Otey was defendant.
1Opinion of the Court
Richardson, J.,
delivered the opinión of the court.
The object of this action was to recover money paid by said Preston as accommodation endorser for said Otey.
The action was brought to the October rules, 1886; and at the December term, 1886, the defendant pleaded von-assumpsit and payment, upon which plea issue was joined; and, on the defendant’s motion, leave was given him to file a special plea and an account of set-offs in sixty days; and the cause was ’continued. And on the 2d day of February, 1887, the defendant filed the following account of set-offs :
William Ballard Preston,
1884 and…
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