Case ID: va_14/html/0958-01.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

Fisher v. Fisher.
    February Term, 1810.
    Decrees — On What Terms Defendant Who Is In Contempt May File Answer, — After a decree for an account against a defendant who is in contempt, and a report of the Commissioner, such defendant can be permitted to file his answer on condi- . tion only, that he does not delay the trial.
    There was a decree, for an account, in this case, against one of the defendants, who was in contempt, and a report of the Commissioner, and the cause ready for trial; and now, that defendant moved for leave to file his answer.
   By the Chancellor.

If the answer had been filed in the regular course of the Court, six months would have been allowed by the act of assembly, to the defendant, after replication, to take his testimony, and to prepare for a trial; but, as the defendant is in contempt, he can only be allowed to file his answer, upon condition, that the trial shall not be delayed by a general replication, which may be filed in Court.