Marchant v. Healy
Supreme Court of Virginia
Appeal from a decree of the Circuit Court of Middlesex county, pronounced November 28, 1894, in a suit in chancery wherein John JR. Marchant was the complainant, and the appellees, and the appellant W. W. Woodward, trustee, were the defendants. John JR. Marchant had a second deed of trust on a tract of 383^ acres of land. The first deed was on a tract of land described as containing six hundred acres, more or less, and embraced the land conveyed in the second deed of trust.
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Appeal from a decree of the Circuit Court of Middlesex county, pronounced November 28, 1894, in a suit in chancery wherein John JR. Marchant was the complainant, and the appellees, and the appellant W. W. Woodward, trustee, were the defendants. John JR. Marchant had a second deed of trust on a tract of 383^ acres of land. The first deed was on a tract of land described as containing six hundred acres, more or less, and embraced the land conveyed in the second deed of trust. The first deed was given to secure money belonging to an infant, which was loaned under an order of the court. After…
1Opinion of the Court
Buchanan, «L,
delivered the opinion of the court.
The amount involved in this appeal is the difference between the debt asserted by the appellant in the lower court, and the amount paid upon it by sales of land made in that court. That difference being less than $500, this court has no jurisdiction, and, although no objection was made by the appellees upon the hearing to the jurisdiction of the court, the appeal must be dismissed as improvidently awarded.
Appeal dismissed.
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