Legal Opinion

Rorer v. Ferguson

Supreme Court of Virginia

Decided November 17, 1898PublishedCited by 5 opinions

Appeal from a decree of the Hustings Court of the city of Boanoke pronounced February 15,1895, in a suit in chancery, wherein the appellee, Underwood, and others, were the complainants, and the appellants and others were the defendants.

1Opinion of the Court

Keith, P.,

delivered the opinion of the court.

*412The suit of Underwood against Payne, Shelor & Co., was brought in the Corporation Court of the city of Roanoke to enforce liens upon the real estate of the defendants. There was a decree referring the cause to a commissioner to report upon the liens and their priorities. Exceptions to this report were passed upon by the Hustings Court, and a decree of sale entered, from which an appeal was taken to this court.

Underwood recovered a judgment against Payne, Shelor & Co. at the March term,. 1893, of the Hustings Court, which was docketed on April 7th…

2Cases cited1 opinion

  1. Cooper v. DaughertySupreme Court of Virginia · 1888

3Cited by5 opinions

  1. Allen v. PatrickSupreme Court of Virginia · 1899
  2. Fulkerson v. TaylorSupreme Court of Virginia · 1902
  3. First Sentinel Bank v. United StatesDistrict Court, W.D. Virginia · 2019
  4. Kline v. Miller's AdministratorSupreme Court of Virginia · 1907
  5. McCreary v. CoggeshallSupreme Court of South Carolina · 1906

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