Bean v. Simmons
Supreme Court of Virginia
'This was a bill filed in the Circuit court of Hardy county by Valentine Simmons against Adam Bishop, William Seymour and others, to subject a piece of ground in the town of Morefield, sold by Simmons to Bishop, to satisfy a balance of the purchase money.
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'This was a bill filed in the Circuit court of Hardy county by Valentine Simmons against Adam Bishop, William Seymour and others, to subject a piece of ground in the town of Morefield, sold by Simmons to Bishop, to satisfy a balance of the purchase money. An account was directed to ascertain the amount of purchase money still due; and that account having been taken and returned, the cause was put into the hands of the judge at the April term of the court in 1848, and the decree had been prepared, and was ready to be entered, bringing on the cause to be heard upon the bill taken for confessed…
1Opinion of the CourtLee, J.
The decree pronounced in this cause on the 24th of April 1848, on the hearing of the case on the bill and amended bills taken as for confessed as against all the defendants, exhibits and depositions filed, required the defendant Bishop to pay to the complainant the amount claimed in the bill, with interest and costs, within sixty days, and on his failure so to do, directed a sale of the land in-the bill and proceedings mentioned for satisfaction thereof, by a commissioner named for that purpose. The amount not having been paid within the time specified, the commissioner sold the land as…
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