Cullop v. Leonard
Supreme Court of Virginia
Appeal from a decree of the Corporation Court of the city of Bristol, pronounced May 5, 1897, in a suit in chancery, wherein the appellants were the complainants, and the appellees were the defendants.
1Opinion of the Court
Keith, P.,
delivered the opinion of the court.
This controversy grows out of the suit of Cullop v. Smith, formerly pending in this court, and reported in 89 Va. 258. A. M. Dickenson was counsel for Mrs. Cullop, the appellant in this suit, in the litigation which culminated in the decree from which the former appeal was taken. Por his services as counsel in the Circuit Court, his client, Mrs. Cullop, an old and ignorant woman, unable either to read or to write, executed her note for the sum of $200, dated September 30, 1889, and to secure that sum, with interest, and certain advances made by him…
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