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6 Va. 464

Cocke v. Upshaw

Supreme Court of Virginia

Decided January 18, 1820

Supreme Court of Virginia · decided 1820-01-18

THE object of the Bill in this casc, filed by the ap-. pellant, in theSuperior Court of Chancery for the Richniond District, was to subject the estate of Jeremiah Burnett, unadininistered by .Pritchett his executor, to the payment of a debt for goods sold by the Complainant to Leroy Upshaw, who afterwards became insolvent and absconded. The.

Decided 1820-01-18

¶1The following was this Court’s Opinion.

The Court,

¶2doubting, upon the testimony, whether it is not proved in the cause that the intestate Burnett was a secret partner with the appellee Upshaw at the time of the transaction in question, is of opinion that the Decree is erroneous, in dismissing the hill, instead of causing this fact to be decided by an issue directed for that purpose. The Decree is therefore reversed with costs, and the cause remanded to be proceeded in pursuant to the principle;; of ibis decree.

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