Volume 32 — Grattan's Virginia Reports

In August, 1871, William B. Isaacs & Co., and three other, execution creditors, for themselves and all other creditors of The Insurance Company of the Valley of Virginia, instituted their suit in equity in the county court of Frederick, which was afterwards removed to the circuit court of the county, against the said insurance company and William L. Brent, the secretary and treasurer of the company, praying the court to appoint a receiver to collect the debts due the…

W. L. Cowardin and several others filed their bills in the chancery court of the city of Richmond against the Universal Life Insurance Company, to recover back certain premiums they had paid upon policies issued by said company. The bills charged that the company was a foreign corporation and had failed. And the plaintiffs sued out attachments, which were served on certain real estate in the city of Richmond, owned by the said insurance company.

This case was argued at Staunton, but was decided at Richmond. This is an appeal from three decrees of the circuit court of Clarke county, made at the terms of said court in February, 1877, and May, 1S77 and 1878. and made in a cause in which the appellee, John 13. Johnson, was plaintiff, and the appellant, Thomas H. Anderson, was defendant.

This was an action of debt in the circuit court .of the city of Fredericksburg brought by the Atlantic and Virginia Fertilizing Company against A. Kishpaugh, to recover the sum of $607, with interest, as endorser of a number of notes executed by different parties, for the price of a fertilizing manure manufactured by the plaintiffs and sold *by their agents in this state.

This was an action of detinue in the circuit court of Charles City county, brought by Edmund T. Waddill against Otway P. Binns, to recover three mules, a wagon and harness. The declaration contains two counts.

Edward C. Minor was elected in 1873 as judge of the county court of Henrico. He went into office on the 1st of January, 1874, and his term of office ended under the constitution and law on the 1st January, 3880. On the 12th of January, 1880, Edmund Wad-dill, Jr., was elected judge of the county court of Henrico, and was duly commissioned and qualified.

This was a writ of error to a judgment of the circuit court of the city of Richmond, in an action on the case brought by Elizabeth Courtney against the city of Richmond, to recover damages for an injury sustained by her, by reason of a defect in one of the sidewalks of the city. There was a verdict and judgment for the plaintiff for $1,500: and the city obtained a writ of error. The cáse is fully stated by Judge Christian in his opinion.

This was an action of debt in the circuit court of Lynchburg, brought in April, 1875, by Henry O. Schoolfield, surviving partner of himself and N. B. Thurman, deceased, against George A. Dinguid, surviving partner of himself and D. P. Dinguid, deceased, lo recover the sum of $355.09, with interest from the 2d of July, 1858, the amount of a note of that date, payable one day after date, executed by said D. P. & G. A. Dinguid to said Schoolfield & Thurman.

*This was an appeal from a decree of the chancery court of the city of Richmond made on the 18th of April, 1876, in a suit brought in 1871 by Virginia Payne and others, creditors of John A. Hutcheson, deceased, against the administrator of said Hutcheson, and his widow and children.

This was a suit in equity in the circuit court of Culpeper county, brought in March, 1875, by the administrator of Edmund P. Major, deceased, and of Bettie Major, deceased, to recover from John C. Major, the executor of Samuel Major, deceased, the share of the estate of Samuel Major to which the plaintiff claimed that his intestates were entitled. The whole case turned upon the construction of the will of Samuel Major, deceased.

This was an appeal by John R. Purdie and Henrietta E., his wife, from the decree of the circuit court of Surry county, made on the 30th of October, 1873, dismissing their petition for a rehearing of two decrees made— one on the 11th of May, 1863, and the other on the 27th of October, 1863 — in a cause depending in said court, in which said Henrietta E. Jones and others were plaintiffs, and Blair Pegram and others were defendants.

This was an appeal from a decree of the circuit court of Pittsylvania county, dissolving an injunction which had been granted at the suit of William C. Terry to restrain the sale of a tract of land which had been conveyed by said Terry and his wife in trust to secure a debt due to William R. Fitzgerald.

This is an appeal by William P. Nuckolls from the judgment of the hustings court of the city of Richmond, on an indictment against him for gaming. The questions in the cause and all the facts are set out in the ooinion of President Moncure.

At the December term, 1878, of the corporation court of Alexandria, a grand jury of eight members indicted George R. Shinn for the larceny of a check which was in the following words and figures: Alexandria, Va., August 18th, 1874. The Citizens Bank of Alexandria: Pay to Geo. R. Shinn, sec’y, or bearer, six hundred and fifty-three dollars 50-100. Wesley Avery. $653.50.