Legal Opinion

Yost v. Poster

Supreme Court of Virginia

Decided October 8, 1885PublishedCited by 5 opinions

Argued at Wytheville, but decided at Staunton. Appeal from seven interlocutory decrees of circuit court of Wythe county rendered from March term, 1883, to April term, 1885, inclusive, in the cause of D. II. Porter against W. R. B. Horne, W. L. Yost and others. Opinion states the case.

1Opinion of the Court

Lewis, P.,

delivered the opinion of the court.

The petition for appeal is voluminous, assigning no less than twenty-eight errors in the decrees complained of, for which, “and for other errors to be assigned at bar,” it is insisted that those decrees should he reversed. To notice these assignments, severally and in detail, would swell this opinion to no small proportions; nor is it necessary to do so. They have all been considered, and none of them are well taken. Only those upon which stress is chiefly laid will be noticed specially. Before, however, doing so, it may be well to advert to the…

2Cases cited2 opinions

  1. Langyher v. Patterson & BashSupreme Court of Virginia · 1883
  2. Fitzgibbon v. BarrySupreme Court of Virginia · 1884

3Cited by5 opinions

  1. Evans v. SpurginSupreme Court of Virginia · 1854
  2. Hildreth v. TurnerSupreme Court of Virginia · 1893
  3. Walker's Ex'or v. PageSupreme Court of Virginia · 1872
  4. Walker's Ex'or v. PageSupreme Court of Virginia · 1872
  5. Walker's Ex'or v. PageSupreme Court of Virginia · 1872

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