Medley v. Pannill's adm'r
Supreme Court of Virginia
The decrees from which these appeals were allowed, were made by the circuit court of the town of Lynchburg. The causes were argued upon the merits by Grattan for the appellant, and Robinson for the appellees. But there was no point adjudged in them which deserves to be reported, except that stated in the following opinion.
1Opinion of the CourtAllen, J.
The merits of the case of Medley v. Pannill’s adm’r, it seems to me, are with the appellee. But a new mode of proceeding is adopted by the court in the decree rendered. The original parties to the judgment injoined having died during the pendency of the injunction, the court, instead of dissolving the injunction, was of opinion that it would be more equitable at once to decree the amount due, than, by a dissolution of the injunction, to put the administrator of Pannill to the delay and expense of a further proceeding at law *64to revive the judgment, before it could be made available. Á decree…
2Cited by1 opinion
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