Legal Opinion

Oeters v. Supreme Lodge Knights of Honor

Supreme Court of Virginia

Decided March 15, 1900PublishedCited by 7 opinions

Error to a judgment of the Law and Equity Court of the city of Kiehinond, rendered Eebruary 22, 1899, in an action of assumpsit, wherein the plaintiff in error was the plaintiff, and the defendant in error was the defendant.

1Opinion of the Court

Keith, P.,

delivered the opinion of the court.

This case was before us at a former term, and is reported in 95 Ya., at page 610. It was then reversed, and a new trial' *202ordered, and, when it was called in the Law and Equity Court, the defendant was required, at the request of the plaintiff, to state his grounds of defence under the general issue of nonassumpsit, the only plea which had been filed. So much of the grounds of .defence thus stated as is sufficient to present the point which is, in our judgment,.decisive of this controversy, is as follows:

“That certain assessments for the widows’ and…

2Cases cited1 opinion

  1. Supreme Lodge Knights of Honor v. OetersSupreme Court of Virginia · 1898

3Cited by7 opinions

  1. Duncan v. CarsonSupreme Court of Virginia · 1920
  2. Chesapeake & Ohio Railway Co. v. OsborneSupreme Court of Virginia · 1930
  3. Metropolitan Life Insurance v. HayslettSupreme Court of Virginia · 1910
  4. Lynchburg Milling Co. v. National Exchange BankSupreme Court of Virginia · 1909
  5. Lynch v. O'BrienSupreme Court of Virginia · 1913

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