Beery v. Irick
Supreme Court of Virginia
In each of these cases there was a motion to remove the cause to the Circuit court of the United States, held at Harrisonburg.
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In each of these cases there was a motion to remove the cause to the Circuit court of the United States, held at Harrisonburg. The first case was a suit in equity iu the Circuit court of Rockingham, afterwards removed to the Circuit court of Augusta, by the widow and four of the children and heirs of Abraham Beery, deceased, against Andrew B. Irick, M. H. Effinger and others, to recover certain sums of money claimed to be due from Irick for the purchase of a tract of land of which Abraham Beery had died seized, and which, after his death, had been sold in 1857 under a decree of the court and…
1Opinion of the CourtChristian, J.
In these two causes a motion is submitted by certain •non-resident parties (in the first named cause, by one of ■the appellants, and in the other by three of the appellees), to remove them from this court, where they are now pending upon appeals, to the Circuit court of the United States for this district.
• The application for removal is made under the act of •Congress of March 2d, 1867. “The act of July 27th, 1866, for the removal of causes from State courts is *486hereby amended as follows: That where a suit is pending, or may hereafter be brought, in any State court, in which there is a…
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