Ayre's Adm'r v. Burke
Supreme Court of Virginia
Appeal from decree of circuit court of Fairfax county, rendered at its June term, 1883, in the cause of Thomas Ayre’s administrator, plaintiff, against Needman Burke, to have contribution from the latter for his share of a judgment on a bond of one James Thrift, deceased, on which Thomas Ayre and. Burke were co-sureties, and which Thomas Ayre had been compelled to pay.
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Appeal from decree of circuit court of Fairfax county, rendered at its June term, 1883, in the cause of Thomas Ayre’s administrator, plaintiff, against Needman Burke, to have contribution from the latter for his share of a judgment on a bond of one James Thrift, deceased, on which Thomas Ayre and. Burke were co-sureties, and which Thomas Ayre had been compelled to pay. This judgment came into conflict in respect to priority with a judgment in favor of H. H. Halley’s administrator against said Burke, which had, after it was barred by the statute of limitations, been revived by scire facias…
1Opinion of the CourtLacy, J.
This is an appeal from a decree of the circuit court of Fair-fax county, rendered at the June term, 1883.
The case is briefly as follows: Thomas Ayre, now deceased, and Needman Burke became bound as sureties for William Ayre, as administrator of one James Thrift, deceased, in a bond executed by William Ayre as principal and said Thomas Ayre and Needman Burke as sureties; that after the death of said Thomas Ayre, I. N. Ballard and wife obtained a- judgment on said bond against William Ayre and Needman Burke, which was recorded April 17, 1879, in the county court of Fairfax county.
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