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1 Patton & Heath 43

Isler v. Willis

Court of Appeals of Virginia

Decided January 15, 1855

Court of Appeals of Virginia · decided 1855-01-15

Abraham Isler filed a bill in September, 1847, in the Circuit Court of Jefferson, against Thomas H. and William B. Willis, millers of that county, alleging that, in 184S, he applied to those gentlemen to advance him above $400 on his crop of wheat then on hand, to pay off an execution against him, in the hands of the sheriff, in the name of one Culverson; and that they did advance him $399, and paid it to Robert Bucas, the sheriff; that another execution, in the name of…

Decided 1855-01-15

THOMPSON, J.

¶1The court is of opinion, that instead of dissolving the injunction, the court below should have over-ruled the motion to dissolve, and should have referred it to a master commissioner of the court, to take an account between the parties, as to all matters growing *out of the sale and delivery of wheat by the plaintiff to the defendant; estimating the wheat at such price as the evidence might show the plaintiff to be en titled to, and crediting the defendants with such just payments and offsets as they might be entitled to; so as to ascertain whether or not the plaintiff was entitled to a larger credit on the execution than the $89 66 admitted by the answer; and if so, how much. The court should, in such interlocutory order of accounts have reserved libertj' to the defendants to repeat their motion to dissolve upon the coming in of the report of the commissioner, and upon such motion should have dissolved, .in whole or in part, or perpetuated the injunction, and disposed of the question of costs, as the result of the accounting should have rendered proper.

¶2The decree was, “That the decree of the court below be reversed and annulled,” with costs, &c. “and the cause remanded to the Circuit Court of Jefferson for further proceedings to be had therein, in conformity with the foregoing opinion.”

The other judges concurred in the opinion of THOMPSON, J.
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