Cook v. Bondurant
Supreme Court of Virginia
Appeal from decree of circuit court of Pittsylvania county, entered April 30th, 1887, in the consolidated suits of W. H. Bondurant, trustee, plaintiff, against D. H. Cook, and W. H. Bondurant, trustee, against same. The decree being adverse to Cook, he obtained an appeal here.
1Opinion of the Court
Lewis, P.,
delivered the opinion of the court.
This appeal must be dismissed for want of jurisdiction. The decree is for $400, with interest thereon from the 1st day of March, 1886, less $50 as of the 1st day of January, 1886, and costs, which is less in amount than $500. The fact that the land in the proceedings mentioned is ordered to he sold, unless the sum decreed against the defendant is paid within a specified time, is immaterial. As this court has repeatedly decided, the *48pecuniary demand asserted is, in such a case, the matter in com troversy, and not “the title or boundaries of land”;…
2Cases cited1 opinion
- Umbarger v. WattsSupreme Court of Virginia · 1874
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