Legal Opinion

M'Call v. Peachy

Court of Appeals of Virginia

Decided May 21, 1798PublishedCited by 16 opinions

The question was, whether this Court had jurisdiction of a cause from the High Court of Chancery upon an appeal from an interlocutory decree pronounced there, and appealed from by consent of parties ?

1Opinion of the Court

ROANE, Judge.

By the Court of Appeals law, of [October,] 1792, R. C. [ed. 1794,] p. 67, [c. 11, 13 Stat. Lürg. 406;] this Court is to have jurisdiction not only in cases provided for by the constitution and in suits originating there, or adjourned thither by virtue of any statute, &c. but also in .such as are now pending therein or which may be brought before them by appeal, writs of error, supersedeas to reverse decrees of the High Court of Chancery, or judgments,of the General Court, or District Court, after those decisions shall be final there, if the matter in controversy be of the value…

2Cases cited1 opinion

  1. Royall's administrators v. JohnsonSupreme Court of Virginia · 1823

3Cited by16 opinions

  1. Harrison v. HarrisonSupreme Court of Alabama · 1852
  2. Manion v. FahyWest Virginia Supreme Court · 1877
  3. Beaubien v. BrinckerhoffIllinois Supreme Court · 1840
  4. Porter Ads. United StatesU.S. Circuit Court for the District of Southern New York · 1877
  5. Bowyer v. LewisSupreme Court of Virginia · 1807

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