Cornwall v. Commonwealth
Supreme Court of Virginia
Error to judgment of circuit court of Henrico county, rendered 26th February, 1886, affirming judgment of county court of said county rendered 8th February, 1886, in a proceeding under act of January 14, 1882, by George Cornwall against the Commonwealth, to verify coupons tendered by him to pay his State taxes for 1883. The judgment was that Cornwall take nothing by his petition, but for his false clamor be in mercy, and that the defendant go thereof without day.
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Error to judgment of circuit court of Henrico county, rendered 26th February, 1886, affirming judgment of county court of said county rendered 8th February, 1886, in a proceeding under act of January 14, 1882, by George Cornwall against the Commonwealth, to verify coupons tendered by him to pay his State taxes for 1883. The judgment was that Cornwall take nothing by his petition, but for his false clamor be in mercy, and that the defendant go thereof without day. At. the trial, Commonwealth’s attorney required the State bonds to be produced from which the coupons had been cut, under act of…
1Opinion of the CourtLacy, J.
Having tendered coupons in payment of his taxes, upon the verification of the same, the plaintiff in error was required to produce the bond from which the said coupons were cut, the said coupons not being signed by the treasurer of the State, nor any other officer of the State, but being wholly printed or engraved by machinery.
This is a plain requirement of the law of this State, the bond being signed by the State treasurer, it was the best evidence of the execution of both bond and coupons, if the same had in fact been executed by any person authorized by law to bind the State. The plaintiff…
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