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is accepted as a substitute for a writ or other process issued from a court.
is no question that the practice was in conformity with the statutes of Virginia.
of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit, the judgment was affirmed. 81 F.(2d) 120.
Court.' 298 U.S. 648, 56 S.Ct. 682, 80 L.Ed. 1377.
limited to claims for public moneys payable by sheriffs. Acts of May, 1732, c.
10, 8, 4 Va.Stat. (Hening) 352. Gradually it was extended to other situations.
As early as 1849 it was made applicable to claims on contract generally.
motion then accepted by the bar. Leas & McVitty v. Merriman (C.C.) 132 F.
repeated approval by the highest court of Virginia. Virginia Hot Springs Co. v.
285 U.S. 467, 477, 52 S.Ct. 430, 433, 76 L.Ed. 884; Coffin Brothers & Co. v.
Bennett, 277 U.S. 29, 31, 48 S.Ct. 422, 423, 72 L.Ed. 768; Bernheimer v.
Converse, 206 U.S. 516, 529, 27 S.Ct. 755, 51 L.Ed. 1163; Christopher v.
Norvell, 201 U.S. 216, 225, 226, 26 S.Ct. 502, 50 L.Ed. 732, 5 Ann.Cas. 740).
L.Ed. 1117; Whitford v. Clark County, 119 U.S. 522, 7 S.Ct. 306, 30 L. Ed.
500; Southern Pacific Co. v. Denton, 146 U.S. 202, 209, 13 S.Ct. 44, 36 L.Ed.
McDowell in two cases (Leas & McVitty v. Merriman, supra, and Schofield v.
the case at hand. Cf. Wile v. Cohn (C.C.) 63 F. 759.
There is instruction also in many state decisions dealing with cognate questions.
parties. Whitley v. Booker Brick Co., 113 Va. 434, 436, 74 S.E. 160; Kain v.
Gilmer v. Bird, 15 Fla. 410; Curry v. Hinman, 11 Ill. 420, 424; McKenna v.
143 La. 724, 79 So. 318; Hanna v. Russell, 12 Minn. 80 (Gil. 43); Dunlap v.
Whitney v. Blackburn, 17 Or. 564, 571, 21 P. 874, 11 Am.St.Rep. 857; State v.
Superior Court, 142 Wash. 270, 253 P. 115, 58 A.L.R. 779; Porter v.
Vandercook, 11 Wis. 70. The analogy is apt and the reasoning persuasive.
not issuing from a court, they do not have our approval.
District of Virginia. The same objection was adequately answered in Eley v.
Rehearing denied 299 U.S. 623, 57 S.Ct. 229, 81 L.Ed. -.
Bar Association' (1929) 36 West Virginia Law Quarterly, 5, 70.
West Virginia,' supra, at page 70.

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