Pate v. M'Clure
Supreme Court of Virginia
This was an appeal from the Chancery Court of Staunton, where John Pate filed his bill against William M’Clure, Alexander M’Clure, George Lvnham, James Breckenridge and Andrew Hamilton. The case, so far as it is material to the present report, is briefly this.
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This was an appeal from the Chancery Court of Staunton, where John Pate filed his bill against William M’Clure, Alexander M’Clure, George Lvnham, James Breckenridge and Andrew Hamilton. The case, so far as it is material to the present report, is briefly this. Pate became indebted to William M’Clure & Co. and executed *his note for the sum of $6584, on the 7th day of June, 1798. Some payments were made; and for the balance, Pate endorsed two sterling bills of exchange in blank, and delivered them to M’Clure & Co. drawn bv George Lynham, of Norfolk, on Walter Burrows of London, payable at…
1Opinion of the Court
March 25.
JUDGE CARR.
This is a bill of injunction to stay proceedings on a deed of trust executed by the plaintiff to secure a debt to the defendants. In his bill, the plaintiff claims several small credits, as omissions in the accounts presented by the defendants; but these claims are inadmissible, as the plaintiff has settled the whole account, and acknowledged its correctness, twice at least; in 1803,when he settled with M’Credie, and executed his bond, and in 1806, when he executed a deed of trust to secure the debt then under the direction oí Breckenridge; and there is no evidence…
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