Porter v. Young
Supreme Court of Virginia
Appeal from decrees of chancery court of city of Richmond, rendered June 18th and 27th, 1885, and April 15th, 1886, respectively, in the attachment suit in equity wherein James H. Young was plaintiff, and Jeremiah Steelman (non-resident) and W. L. Porter and others, resident debtors of said Steelman, and garnishees, two of whom resided in the city of Richmond where the attachment was sued out, were defendants, whilst a tract of land attached as the property of said Steelman…
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Appeal from decrees of chancery court of city of Richmond, rendered June 18th and 27th, 1885, and April 15th, 1886, respectively, in the attachment suit in equity wherein James H. Young was plaintiff, and Jeremiah Steelman (non-resident) and W. L. Porter and others, resident debtors of said Steelman, and garnishees, two of whom resided in the city of Richmond where the attachment was sued out, were defendants, whilst a tract of land attached as the property of said Steelman lay in Chesterfield county. In October, 1881, Porter contracted to deliver cord-wood to Steelman, who was to advance him…
1Opinion of the Court
Lewis, P.,
delivered the opinion of the court.
The questions arising in this case are free from difficulty. The first point made hy the appellant is, that the chancery court erred in overruling the demurrer to the bill. The demurrer was based upon several grounds, the first of which is, that the account between Porter and Steelman, and which, as the bill alleges, was, hy a written» contract exhibited with the bill, assigned by Steelman to the plaintiff, the appellee here, is not assignable. But this position is untenable. The subject of the assignment is an ordinary running account between the…
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