Farmers' Bank v. Willis
West Virginia Supreme Court
This was an appeal, by the defendants below, from a judgment of the circuit court of Jefferson county, rendered at the April term, 1869, thereof, in a suit therein pending, wherein the Farmers’ Bank of Virginia, sue-Ing for the use of J. M. Goddin and Samuel Robinson, assignees and trustees, was plaintiff, and Thomas H. "Willis and B,. B. Washington, were defendants. The Hon. Joseph A. Chapline, then judge of said circuit court, presided at the trial of the cause below.
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This was an appeal, by the defendants below, from a judgment of the circuit court of Jefferson county, rendered at the April term, 1869, thereof, in a suit therein pending, wherein the Farmers’ Bank of Virginia, sue-Ing for the use of J. M. Goddin and Samuel Robinson, assignees and trustees, was plaintiff, and Thomas H. "Willis and B,. B. Washington, were defendants. The Hon. Joseph A. Chapline, then judge of said circuit court, presided at the trial of the cause below. The opinion of Hoffman, Judge, contains a sufficient statement of the facts, and recital of the statutes therein referred to.
1Opinion of the Court
HoefMAN, Judge :
In the year 1812, it was enacted by the General Assembly of Virginia, (Acts 1811-12, ch. 7—2 R. C. 1819, ch. 196, secs, 1, 2, 5, 9, 11, 15, 20,) that the Farmers’ Bank of Virginia should be established in the city of Richmond, with a capital stock of two million dollars, divided into twenty thousand shares of one hundred dollars each :
That there should be appropriated to the use of the Commonwealth three thousand three hundred and thirty-four of these shares : That books of subscription should be opened in Richmond, Norfolk, Lynchburg, "Winchester, Fredericksburg and Staunton,…
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