Case Name: Thornton v. Corbin
Court: Court of Appeals of Virginia
Jurisdiction: Virginia
Decision Date: 1802-05-12
Citations: 3 Call 232
Docket Number: 
Parties: *Thornton v. Corbin.
Judges: 
Reporter: Virginia Reports
Volume: 7
Pages: 497–497

Head Matter:
*Thornton v. Corbin.
[Wednesday, May 12th, 1802.]
(Ante, 221.)
Practice — Dismissal of Suit — Re-docketing. —If a suit be dismissed, by surprise of the appellant, it may be re-docketed at a subsequent term.
See foot-note to Thornton v. Corbin, 3 Call 221. The principal case is cited with approval in Casanova v. Kreusch, 21 W. Va. 729; Beasley v. Owen, 3 Hen. & M. 449; Emory v. Erskine, 7 Leigh 269.

Opinion:
The appellant having this day produced further affidavits, proving the surprise; the order, discharging the rule for shewing cause, why the suit should not be re-docketed, was set aside ; and the cause put upon the docket again, in the place in which it formerly stood.