Hughes v. Burwell
Supreme Court of Virginia
Error to a judgment of the Corporation Court of the city of Danville, in an action of assumpsit. Judgment for the plaintiff. Defendant assigns error.
1Opinion of the CourtCardwell, J.
The defendant in error, M. P. Burwell, brought this action of assumpsit and recovered a judgment in the Corporation Court of the city of Danville against the plaintiff in error, John E. Hughes, for the sum of $2,570.57, which the plaintiff alleged that the defendant agreed to pay him for an open account which the *599plaintiff held and owned against Swain & Wyllie, a partnership which had but recently made an assignment for the benefit of their creditors.
We are asked to review and reverse this judgment because of error of the court in failing properly to instruct the jury, and in refusing to set…
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