Fant v. Miller
Supreme Court of Virginia
This was an action of debt in the Circuit court of Fauquier county, brought by Miller & Mayhew, of Baltimore, against John B. Fant and "William F. Phillips, upon a negotiable note of three thousand seven hundred and fifty dollars.
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This was an action of debt in the Circuit court of Fauquier county, brought by Miller & Mayhew, of Baltimore, against John B. Fant and "William F. Phillips, upon a negotiable note of three thousand seven hundred and fifty dollars. The action was one of four which were tried together, brought by the plaintiffs against the defendants, *upon four notes for the same amount made by the defendants to E. B* Fant & Co., and endorsed by E. B. Fant, by the name of E. E. Fant & Co. ; that being the name under which he did business. In April, 1857, the plaintiffs recovered a judgment in the case against…
1Opinion of the CourtRives, J.
The appellants John E. Eant and William E. Phillips, in June, 1850, gave four blank notes with their signatures to E- E- Eant, a merchant of Baltimore, who was son of the first and the nephew of the second. This accommodation was in compliance with E. E. Eant’s letter to his father of 7th June, 1850, which, under the decision of the Court of Appeals of 24th May, 1858, was given in evidence to the jury at the late trial of this cause, and constitutes a part of the record now under review. It is not included in the judge’s certificate of facts proved at the trial; but is embodied in the second…
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