Keister's Executors v. Philips'
Supreme Court of Virginia
Error to a judgment of the Court of Law and Chancery of city of Norfolk, in a proceeding by motion for a judgment for money, “judgment for plaintiff. Defendants assign error.
1Opinion of the CourtPrentis, J.
M. L. Keister and D. E. Keister, executors of the last will and testament of E. E. Keister, deceased, defendants, complain of a verdict and judgment in favor of Mary E. Philips, executrix of the last will and testament of W. H. Philips, deceased, plaintiff.
The plaintiff’s motion is based upon a note for $500 made by E. E. Keister, payable to her testator, W. H. Philips. The defendants pleaded the general issue and filed a special plea alleging that on July 16, 1916, their testator, E. E. Keister, had paid to W. H. Philips, the payee of the note, $500 in part payment thereof, and that Philips…
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