Public-domain · open source
OpenJurist

1 Va. 204

Kenner v. Hord

Virginia Chancery Court

Decided March 16, 1806

Virginia Chancery Court · decided 1806-03-16

<p>Injunction — Death of Party — Revival—Dissolution.*— Where the defendant dies, after filing his answer to a bill of injunction, and before a decision of the cause; an order may be obtained, on the motion of his representatives, that, unless the complainant, within a certain time fixed by the Court, shall revive the suit against them, the injunction shall stand dissolved.</p>

Decided 1806-03-16

¶1The defendant, in this case, had died after the filing of his answer ; and now Botts, for his representatives, moved that an order might be entered, that the injunction should stand dissolved as an act of this day, unless, the complainant, on or before the last day of the next term, should revive the suit against the representatives of Hord. He cited the order, in the case of Carter v. Washington, as in point.

PER CURIAM.

¶2A difference may, perhaps, be taken between the two cases : and the rules of the Court should be settled on very mature deliberation. At a subsequent day, the judge observed that the motion had been considered by the Court; that no distinction, in principle, could be discovered between this case and that of Carter v. Washington, and that the order might be entered as moved for.

¶3N. B. An agreement at the bar prevented the entry.

/1/va/204 · .json · Public domain