Case ID: va_14/html/0946-02.html
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Author: {"author": "By the Chancellor.", "license": "Public Domain", "url": "https://static.case.law/"}
Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

*Wright v. Wright et al.
    September Term, 1809.
    Equity Practice. — Practice, where the appellees took possession of the property belonging to the intestate of the appellant, pending the suit.
    There was an appeal from the County Court of Amelia, and it was stated and proved, that since the suit was commenced in the County Court, the appellees had taken possession of the negroes belonging to the estate of the intestate of the appellant who now applied to the Court to order •restitution.
   By the Chancellor.

The following order may be entered: That, unless the appellees, or such of them as are in possession of the negroes, or any of them, belonging to the estate of the intestate of the appellant, enter into bond with a penalty equal to double the value of the said negroes in his, her, or their possession, with sufficient security, to be approved by Joseph Eggleston or Samuel Eord, of Amelia County, conditioned to save harmless, and to indemnify, the appellant against all debts that may come against his intestate, and to have the said negroes forthcoming to abide the future decree of this Court, the appellees, or such of them as may have any of the said negroes in his, her, or their possession, do deliver the same to the appellant.