Priest v. Whitacre
Supreme Court of Virginia
Error to judgment of circuit court of Fauquier county rendered in action on indemnifying bond at the relation of Samuel Triplett against James Priest, executor of John Murray, deceased, and others, defendants, who are the appellants. The questions here decided are on instructions ashed for at the trial by the defendants and refused, and on their motion for a new trial, which was overruled.
1Opinion of the Court
Lewis, P.,
delivered the opinion of the court.
The plaintiffs in error, who were the defendants in the court below, were obligors in a certain indemnifying bond, executed to the sheriff of Fauquier county, and upon which the action was brought for the benefit and at the relation of Samuel Triplett, claiming to be the owner of certain cattle which had been levied on and sold by the said sheriff by virtue of an execution in his hands against E. D. and Thos. J. Kincheloe, in favor of the executor of John Murray, deceased. A. verdict and judgment were rendered for the plaintiff; and on writ of…
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