Galt's Ex'or v. Swain
Supreme Court of Virginia
This was a bill filed in 1824 in the late Chancery court in Richmond, by jjevi Swain against a number of parties as subscribers to a scheme for building a church.
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This was a bill filed in 1824 in the late Chancery court in Richmond, by jjevi Swain against a number of parties as subscribers to a scheme for building a church. The plaintiff alleged that he had been employed by some of them on behalf of themselves and others to do the carpenters’ work of the building; that he had proceeded to do a large quantity of work, and they had failed to pay him; and he charged that a number of the subscribers had failed to pay up their subscriptions. Among these, he charged, were Galt, Nicholas and Scott. Several of the parties answered, saying that they had paid up…
1Opinion of the CourtSamuels, J.
The case between the parties before the court on this appeal is this: The appellee, by suit in chancery in the court below, sought to recover of the appellants respectively, several sums of money, alleged to have been subscribed for the purpose of building a church. It is alleged in the bill that a number of individuals, including the appellants Scott and Nichols, and the testator of the appellant Galt, associated themselves together and agreed to subscribe certain sums of money, which were placed on a list opposite their respective names, for the purpose of building a church. It is not…
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