Legal Opinion

Cox v. Hagan

Supreme Court of Virginia

Decided September 17, 1919PublishedCited by 43 opinions

Error to a judgment of the Circuit Court of Scott county-in a proceeding by motion for a judgment for money. Judgment for plaintiff. Defendants assign error. This action at law was instituted in the court below by the defendant in error, Hagan (hereinafter referred to as plaintiff, or as plaintiff in the court below), by the following notice-of motion for judgment: “To R. W. Cox, L. F. Cox, Mrs. R. W. Cox, Mary Cox, G. B..

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Error to a judgment of the Circuit Court of Scott county-in a proceeding by motion for a judgment for money. Judgment for plaintiff. Defendants assign error. This action at law was instituted in the court below by the defendant in error, Hagan (hereinafter referred to as plaintiff, or as plaintiff in the court below), by the following notice-of motion for judgment: “To R. W. Cox, L. F. Cox, Mrs. R. W. Cox, Mary Cox, G. B.. Bickley and R. E. Bickley: • “You and each of you are hereby notified that on the 1st day of the next term of the Circuit Court for Scott county (being the September term,…

1Opinion of the Court

Sims, J.,

after making the foregoing statement, delivered’ the following opinion of the court:

The material question? raised by the assignments of error will be disposed of in their order as stated below.

*668[1, 2] 1. Was there error in the action of the court below in sustaining the general objection of the plaintiff to special plea No. 1 set forth in the statement preceding this •opinion ?

This question must be answered in the negative.

The plea is, in substance, that although the signatures of the plaintiffs in érror appear on the note in said suit as comakers, they were not in fact principal…

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