Commonwealth v. Dunlop
Supreme Court of Virginia
Error to judgment of circuit court of the city of Petersburg, rendered January 4th, 1892, in a suit by David Dunlop against the Commonwealth of Virginia, for the purposes mentioned in Code, § 408, as amended and re-enacted by act of February 22d, 1890, entitled “An act to amend and re-enact § 408 of the Code, in reference to proceedings to try the genuineness of coupons.” The judgment being adverse to the commonwealth, it obtained a writ of error to this court.
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Error to judgment of circuit court of the city of Petersburg, rendered January 4th, 1892, in a suit by David Dunlop against the Commonwealth of Virginia, for the purposes mentioned in Code, § 408, as amended and re-enacted by act of February 22d, 1890, entitled “An act to amend and re-enact § 408 of the Code, in reference to proceedings to try the genuineness of coupons.” The judgment being adverse to the commonwealth, it obtained a writ of error to this court. Opinion states the case.
1Opinion of the Court
Lewis, P.,
delivered the opinion of the court.
This was a proceeding under the statute for the verification of coupons previously tendered by the plaintiff in payment of taxes. At the trial the plaintiff proved, as alleged in the petition, that no part of the taxes for which the coupons were tendered were school taxes or liquor-license taxes. He also introduced a witness,-who exhibited for the inspection of the court and jury the bonds from which the coupons had been cut. The witness then testified, without objection, that they were the genuine bonds of the state; that he himself had cut the…
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