March, Price & Co. v. Chambers
Supreme Court of Virginia
This was a suit in equity in the circuit court of Danville, brought in October, 1873, by March, Price & Co. against A. B. Chambers and John G. Raney, to subject to the satisfaction of a judgment they had recovered against Chambers a lot in the town of Danville which had been once owned by Chambers, but which Raney claimed as his property. The circuit court dismissed the bill, and the plaintiff applied to this court for an appeal; which was allowed.
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This was a suit in equity in the circuit court of Danville, brought in October, 1873, by March, Price & Co. against A. B. Chambers and John G. Raney, to subject to the satisfaction of a judgment they had recovered against Chambers a lot in the town of Danville which had been once owned by Chambers, but which Raney claimed as his property. The circuit court dismissed the bill, and the plaintiff applied to this court for an appeal; which was allowed. The case is fully stated by Judge Burks in his opinion.
1Opinion of the CourtBurks, J.
The appellants, March, Price & Co. filed their bill in the circuit court of Danville against the appellees, A. B. Chambers and John G. Raney, to subject a house and lot in the possession of Raney to satisfy the lien of a judgment recovered by the appellants against said Chambers. Raney and Chambers filed separate answers to the bill, and no depositions being taken on either side, the cause was heard on the bill, answers and exhibits, without replications to the answers, and a decree was entered dismissing the bill at the costs of the complainants. From this decree an appeal was allowed the…
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