Trigg v. Clay
Supreme Court of Virginia
Appeal from decree of circuit court of Scott county, rendered March 27th, 1890, in a suit wherein T. P. Trigg, A. MeBradley and H. Fugate, surviving partners of themselves, and James G. Greenway, deceased, partners doing business in the firm name of Trigg, Fugate & Co., were complainants, and H. B. Olay, Jr., and W. D. Kenner, partners in the firm name of H. B. Olay, Jr., & Co., were defendants. The decree being adverse to the complainants, they appealed.
1Opinion of the CourtLacy, J.
The suit is a foreign attachment in equity, brought to attach the property, situated within the jurisdiction of the court, belonging to the non-resident defendants, and to subject the same to the satisfaction of the debt of the plaintiffs. The case is, briefly, as follows :
The appellants, a firm of lumber merchants resident at Abingdon, in Virginia, made a contract by which they agreed to buy, at a stated price, lumber of agreed dimensions, from the appellees, a firm of lumber-getters, resident at Bogersville, in the State of Tennessee, the lumber to be delivered at Olinchport, in Scott…
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