Beale v. Wilson

Decided March 20, 1815

Supreme Court of Virginia · decided 1815-03-20

A motion was made, m the Sweet Springs District Court, ^ Charles Beale, aeainst William. Wilson, John Cartmill, and Nathaniel Bakin, on a forthcoming bond. “ For reasons appearing to the court,” it was ordered that said bond be quashed. No bill of exceptions was filed : but the clerk inserted in the transcript of the record a forthcoming bond, on the back thereof notice was acknowledged, in writing, by William Wilson and.

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Decided 1815-03-20

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¶1The president pronounced the courts opinion.

¶2The court is of opinion, that, under the authority of the case of Bartley & Ferguson v. Yates, (2 H. & M. 398,) and on general principles, the bond in the record is a sufficient bond under the act of assembly. /The judgment of the District Court is therefore reversed ; but there being no bill of exceptions making the notice, stated in the record, a part thereof; and it not appearing by the judgment of the District Court, that the appellees had notice of the motion, or appeared in the court below, the cause is to be sent back to the Superior Court of Monroe County, that the plaintiff may-have an opportunity to prove his notice, and the defendants to make any defence thereto, which their case, according to law, may admit of.