5 Munf. 178
Decided October 21, 1816
Supreme Court of Virginia · decided 1816-10-21
Daniel D. Davisson assignee of Isaac Davisson, brought suit on a bond against Benjamin Wilson, jr., who pleaded that, before notice of the assignment, the effects of the assignor were attached in his, the defendant’s hands, and a decree entered that he should pay the debt to the attaching' creditor, on bond and security being given in the usual form; — and that, bond and security being afterwards given, he had paid the debt to the attaching creditor.
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Decided 1816-10-21
Cited by 7 later decisions — most recently June 1896
6 state decisions
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¶1pronounced the Court’s opinion that the Superior Court was correct in sustaining the demurrer of the plaintiff to the plea of the defendant, *180but erred in entering the Judgment before a trial of the plea of payment.
¶2Judgment reversed, and cause remanded for a trial to be had therein of the plea of payment.