Case ID: va_14/html/0946-01.html
Source: Caselaw Access Project
Author: {"author": "By the Chancellor.", "license": "Public Domain", "url": "https://static.case.law/"}
Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

Hampton’s Executors v. Pollard.
    September Term, 1809.
    Equity Practice — notion for Account — irregular.—A motion for an account is Irregular; it should be for a decree, which if the Court cannot enter without an account, it will direct one.
    The motion in this case was for an account upon the evidence contained in the answer. The cause was at rules.
   By the Chancellor.

There is no such motion in a Court of Chancery as a motion for an account. The motion should be for a decree, which, if the Court cannot enter without an account, it will direct one. Motion denied.