Nulton v. Isaacs
Supreme Court of Virginia
In 1873, William B. Isaacs & Co. filed their bill in the circuit court of Frederick county, stating therein, substantially, that they were holders of a large amount of notes of the old Bank of the Valley in Virginia, and of the Farmers Bank of Virginia; that their claims as such note holders were audited, reported and confirmed against the said banks in the circuit court of the United States for the eastern district of Virginia, in the chancery *causes therein pending, in…
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In 1873, William B. Isaacs & Co. filed their bill in the circuit court of Frederick county, stating therein, substantially, that they were holders of a large amount of notes of the old Bank of the Valley in Virginia, and of the Farmers Bank of Virginia; that their claims as such note holders were audited, reported and confirmed against the said banks in the circuit court of the United States for the eastern district of Virginia, in the chancery *causes therein pending, in which the debts of the said banks have been audited and their assets disbursed, and complainants having waited in vain,…
1Opinion of the Court
MONCURE, P.,
delivered the opinion of the court. After stating the case he proceeded:
There is but a single assignment of error in the petition for an appeal in this case, which is in these words:
“The# single error complained of is in overruling the demurrer to the bill of the complainants, and thereby permitting the complainants to proceed in one bill against *several persons in regard to matters entirely distinct and independent, and as to which the defendants had no common or related interest.”
And the petitioners proceed as follows in their said petition:
“The bill charges (page 5) that…
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