Turpin v. Chesterfield C. &. I. M. Co.
Supreme Court of Virginia
Appeal from decree of circuit court of Henrico, rendered 5th. March, 1883, dismissing the petitions filed by Ann E. Turpin and others, against the Chesterfield Coal and Iron Mining Company and others, in the three suits of Finney v. Heth, Gwathmey v. Heth, and Barksdale v. Heth.
1Opinion of the CourtLacy, J.
The appellants, Ann E. Turpin and others, filed their petition in the said court in the three causes pending therein, of Finney v. Heth, Gwathmey v. Heth, and Barksdale v. Heth, alleging that they were entitled to the estate of one S. S. Saunders, deceased. That one John Farrar, as the agent of what was called “The Black Heath Company of Colliers,” on the 23d day of December, 1840, at ninety days after date, made a bill of exchange in favor of said Saunders on one Col. John Heth, London, and endorsed by said Saunders to W. and S. Irvine, for two thousand pounds sterling, which was protested…
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