Bond v. Pettit
Supreme Court of Virginia
Appeal from decree of circuit court of Orange county, rendered October 4th, 1889, in a suit wherein Smith Pettit and J. Dripps were complainants and R. H. Bond and Philip H. Pry, clerk of the county court of said county, were defendants.
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Appeal from decree of circuit court of Orange county, rendered October 4th, 1889, in a suit wherein Smith Pettit and J. Dripps were complainants and R. H. Bond and Philip H. Pry, clerk of the county court of said county, were defendants. The object of the suit was to perpetually enjoin and restrain said Bond from demanding and receiving, and said Pry, clerk as aforesaid, from making a’ deed of conveyance to a certain tract of 448½ acres of land, more or less, in Orange county,, returned delinquent, in the name of said Pettit and Dripps, for the non-payment of taxes for the years 1879, 1880,…
1Opinion of the Court
Richardson, J.,
(after stating the case,) delivered the opinion of the court.
We are clearly of opinion that the decree is without error, and should be affirmed.
It is insisted on behalf of the appellant, Bond, that this case is, in every material particular, ruled by the case of Flanagan v. Grimmet et als., 10 Gratt. 421; and, to sustain this contention, it is claimed that the act of February 9th, 1814, (2 Rev. Code, 512,) under which that decision was made, is substantially the same as the law, found in the 38th chapter of the Code of 1873, and subsequent acts changing’and altering the same,…
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