Woodson v. Barrett & Co.
Supreme Court of Virginia
THIS was a joint bill of injunction presented by Joseph Woodson and William Royster to the late Judge of the High Court of Chancery; the case stated in which was, in substance, the following: Sometime in the year 1/83, Woodson gamed at cards with Thomas Miller, and lost to him the sum of 140Ol. in officers’ certificates; and Miller, having about the same time lost at gaming to a certain John Jouitt, junior, nearly the same sum, requested Woodson to pay the aforesaid sum in…
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THIS was a joint bill of injunction presented by Joseph Woodson and William Royster to the late Judge of the High Court of Chancery; the case stated in which was, in substance, the following: Sometime in the year 1/83, Woodson gamed at cards with Thomas Miller, and lost to him the sum of 140Ol. in officers’ certificates; and Miller, having about the same time lost at gaming to a certain John Jouitt, junior, nearly the same sum, requested Woodson to pay the aforesaid sum in certificates to Jouitt. Some short time afterwards, they were all three together, and Jouitt was expressly told, that the…
1Opinion of the Court
*87Tuesday, March 15. The Judges delivered their opinions.
Judge Tucker.
The bill states, that in 1783, Miller gained with the appellant Woodson, and won of him 1,400/. in officers’ certificates; that Jouitt had won about the same sum of Miller j that Miller requestedWoodson to paj Jouitt the 1,400/. and that Woodson gave his bond to Jouitt for that sum, Jouitt at the time knowing that it was for this gaming debt. This bond was afterwards assigned to Barrett and Co. who say they had no information that the bond was for gaming at the time of the assignment, nor does Barrett, who alone answers,…
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