Metcalf v. Williams
Supreme Court of the United States
Appeal from the Circuit Court of the United States for the Eastern District of Virginia. The facts are stated in the opinion of the court.
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Bradley
This was a bill in equity filed for setting aside a judgment at law, the rendering and entry of which, as alleged, were a surprise upon the. complain ant, who was misled by certain proceedings which took place in the court.. The complainant-was sued personally upon a check drawn by him, as he contends, officially, as the vice-president of the Montpelier Female Humane Association of Orange County, Virginia, an incorporated association of that State, having its office in the city of Alexandria. The check was in these words, to Wit: —
“ No. .] Alexandria, Va.j Oct. 2, 1875.
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