Case Name: Carter v. Washington and Others
Court: Superior Court of Chancery of Virginia
Jurisdiction: Virginia
Decision Date: 1806-03-16
Citations: 1 Hen. & M. 203
Docket Number: 
Parties: Carter v. Washington and Others.
Judges: 
Reporter: Virginia Reports
Volume: 11
Pages: 100–100

Head Matter:
Carter v. Washington and Others.
Monday, March 16, 1806.
Injunction — Death of Party — Revival—Dissolution. — where the complainant in a bill of injunction dies; after answer filed, and before a decision of the cause, an order may be obtained, on the motion of the' defendant, that, unless the representatives of the complainant shall appear, within a certain time fixed by the Court, and cause the suit to be revived in their names, the injunction shall stand dissolved.
See the principal case approved in Kenner v. Hord, 1 Hen. &M. 204. See generally, monographic note on “Injunctions” appended to Claytor v. Anthony, 15 Gratt. 518.

Opinion:
The complainant obtained an injunction, in this Court, to stay waste. After the answer of the defendants had come in, and the cause was set down for hearing, the complainant died.
Botts, for the defendants, stated that the representatives of the complainant were numerous, much dispersed, and not .well known ; and that it would be difficult, if not '^impossible, to trace their persons, rights, or residence, so as to serve any order of Court upon them. He therefore moved that an order might be entered, that, unless the representatives of the complainant should come in, before the end of the next term, and cause the suit to be revived in their names, the injunction to stay waste should stand dissolved, as an act of this day.
Which motion was granted accordingly..
See 2 Eg. Ca. Abr. 2, note (a) in margin.