Goolsby v. St. John
Supreme Court of Virginia
Goolsby & Rector, partners, composed of Robert Goolsby and James M. Rector, made their promissory note for eight hundred dollars, dated January 20, 1861, payable six months after date, to John Ij. Saunders for value received. By an endorsement upon the said note, dated July 20th, 1861, said Saunders assigned it to G. W. St. John, for value received.
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Goolsby & Rector, partners, composed of Robert Goolsby and James M. Rector, made their promissory note for eight hundred dollars, dated January 20, 1861, payable six months after date, to John Ij. Saunders for value received. By an endorsement upon the said note, dated July 20th, 1861, said Saunders assigned it to G. W. St. John, for value received. There was also an endorsement upon the note of certain credits in these words: ‘ ‘Paid by J. M. Rector, one hundred and sixty-two dollars fifty cents, July 20th, 1861. May 16th, 1863: Received of J. M. Rector, one hundred dollars, it being the…
1Opinion of the Court
MONCURF, P.
delivered the opinion of the court.
Many questions arose, and were ably argued in this case, but, in our view of it, there will be no necessity for considering more than one or two of them, which depend upon the preliminary ground of jurisdiction. We think that a court of equity had no jurisdiction of the matter of controversy in the original suit, and- that the demurrer to the bill ought therefore to have been sustained.
There is a no better settled proposition of law than that, as a general rule, when a party has an adequate remedy at law he is entitled to none in a court of…
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