Briggs v. Cook
Supreme Court of Virginia
Error to a judgment of the Court of Law and Chancery for the city of Norfolk, rendered July 28, 1900, in a proceeding by motion for a judgment for money wherein the defendant in error was the plaintiff, and the plaintiff in error was the defendant.
1Opinion of the Court
Keith, P.,
delivered the opinion of the court.
W. C. Cook filed a notice in writing that on the 3d day of July, 1900, he would move the Court of Law and Chancery for the city of Norfolk for judgment against George S. Briggs for the sum of $131.86, with interest from the 7th of May, 1900, until paid, which sum he claimed to be due him for timber furnished in accordance with a contract between the parties. The defendant pleaded non-assumpsit, to which the plaintiff replied generally, and also filed a special plea in writing in which he claimed that the plaintiff was indebted to him for failure to…
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