Johnson v. Fry
Supreme Court of Virginia
Error to judgment of circuit court of Madison county, rendered ivovember 6th, 1889, in an action of assumpsit, wherein one Fry was plaintiff, and H. G. Johnson and Eliza, his wife (jointly interested in the subject-matter of the suit), and others, were defendants. The trial was upon no issue, no plea having been filed. Verdict was for plaintiff, and was set aside by the court below. At the second trial the verdict was also for plaintiff. Defendants moved to set it aside.
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Error to judgment of circuit court of Madison county, rendered ivovember 6th, 1889, in an action of assumpsit, wherein one Fry was plaintiff, and H. G. Johnson and Eliza, his wife (jointly interested in the subject-matter of the suit), and others, were defendants. The trial was upon no issue, no plea having been filed. Verdict was for plaintiff, and was set aside by the court below. At the second trial the verdict was also for plaintiff. Defendants moved to set it aside. The motion was overruled. The defendants excepted, and judgment was entered accordingly, and tlie defendants brought the…
1Opinion of the CourtLacy, J.
The case, so far as it is necessary to be stated, is briefly as follows : The defendant in error was the agent and farm manager of the plaintiffs in error on their farm, situated in the county of Madison. Disagreement having sprung up between the owners of the property and the said Fry, who was the farm manager, he was removed, and at the August rules, 1887, the said Fry instituted an action of assumpsit against the owners of the said farm and its belongings, one of them, Fannie S. Barton, being unmarried, and the other girls, Mattie and Eliza, being married, respectively — Mattie to the…
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