Price v. Cole's Ex'x
Supreme Court of Virginia
Appeal from decree of circuit court of Henry county, rendered October 2.3d, 1885, in the cause of Hardin Price against Nathaniel C. Fontaine and others. The decree being unfavorable to Price, he obtained an appeal to this court. Opinion states the case.
1Opinion of the CourtLacy, J.
The appellant, Hardin Price, having become the purchaser of Nathaniel C. Fontaine’s interest in the tract of land which is the subject of this controversy by reason of *344a judicial sale of the same in the circuit court of Henry, filed the bill in this suit for partition thereof. The said Nathaniel C. Fontaine, being in possession of the same, defended the suit upon two grounds.
The first was that he was not served with process in the mode prescribed by law, and was not properly a party to the suit in which his interest was sold; the original summons in the cause not having been served upon him…
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