Dunn v. Dunn
Supreme Court of Virginia
This was a suit in equity in the Circuit court of Washington county by J. B. and W. A. Dunn against W. W. Dunn, A. J. Dunn and others, to have a settlement of the accounts of two mercantile firms, one of which consisted of .the plaintiffs and the two named defendants, and the other consisted of the plaintiffs and A. J. Dunn.
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This was a suit in equity in the Circuit court of Washington county by J. B. and W. A. Dunn against W. W. Dunn, A. J. Dunn and others, to have a settlement of the accounts of two mercantile firms, one of which consisted of .the plaintiffs and the two named defendants, and the other consisted of the plaintiffs and A. J. Dunn. W. W. Dunn appeared and filed a demurrer and answer, the demurrer being contained in the answer, and not stating the ground of demurrer, except that the bill is not sufficient in equity to entitle the plaintiffs to the relief which they seek. Upon the hearing the court…
1Opinion of the Court
Moncure P.
delivered the opinion of the court.
In 1859 J. B. and William A. Bunn, surviving partners of themselves and John Dunn, late merchants and partners trading under the style of John Dunn & Sons, claiming to be creditors of A. J. Dunn and W. W. Dunn in about $4,000, and also of the said A. J. Dunn in about $1,500, and that W. W. Dunn resided out of the state, and A. J. Dunn was preparing to remove from the state, and each of them had property within the state, sued out of the Circuit court of Washington county a foreign attachment against the said debtors and their property for the…
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