Parsons v. Commonwealth
Supreme Court of Virginia
Error to judgment of circuit court of the city of Richmond, rendered December 24th, 1884, dismissing as ro the Commonwealth of Virginia, the petition of Edwin Parsons against her and Morton Marye, as Auditor of Public Accounts of the State of Virginia. Opinion states the case. There can be no doubt that this statute certainly authorizes and permits suits to be brought against the State.
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Error to judgment of circuit court of the city of Richmond, rendered December 24th, 1884, dismissing as ro the Commonwealth of Virginia, the petition of Edwin Parsons against her and Morton Marye, as Auditor of Public Accounts of the State of Virginia. Opinion states the case. There can be no doubt that this statute certainly authorizes and permits suits to be brought against the State. Such was its purpose, its language; especially section 6, sliows clearly that judgments and decrees against the State in suits brought thereunder, are contemplated and provided for, and this court has…
1Opinion of the CourtFauntleroy, J.
This is an appeal from and supersedeas to a decretal order of the circuit court of Richmond city, entered December 24th, 1884, in a suit therein depending between the appellant, Edwin Parsons, and the Commonwealth of Virginia. On the 22nd December, 1884, Edwin Parsons, the Appellant, filed his petition in the said circuit court of the city of Richmond, *166in which, he averred, that the Commonwealth of Virginia is indebted to him in the sum of $24,000; for which amount he holds her past dire obligations, being 800 of her coupons, for $30 each, cut from bonds of the Commonwealth, issued under the…
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