Case Name: Spencer v. Smith
Court: Supreme Court of Appeals of Virginia
Jurisdiction: Virginia
Decision Date: 1815-01-04
Citations: 4 Munf. 323
Docket Number: 
Parties: Spencer v. Smith.
Judges: 
Reporter: Virginia Reports
Volume: 18
Pages: 139–139

Head Matter:
Spencer v. Smith.
Wednesday, January 4th, 1815.
f. Injunction — Dissolution—Appeal—Who May Grant, —Under the act of January 27th, 1810, the judges of the superior courts of chancery are not empowered to grant appeals from orders for dissolution of injunctions.
See generally, monographic note on “Injunctions” appended to Claytor v. Anthony, 15 Gratt. 518: mono-graphic note on “Appeal and Error” appended to Hill v. Salem, etc., Turnpike Co., 2 Rob. 263.
Note. But see the 3d section of the act “concerning appeals and proceedings in chancery,” passed February 26th. 1816 — acts of 1815 — 16, p. 17, ch. 8. — Note in Original Edition.

Opinion:
This appeal was granted by the Superior Court of Chancery for the Clarksburg district, from an order of that court dissolving an injunction, in October 1813. It was now dismissed, as improvidently allowed; the power of granting appeals in such cases being vested, by the act of assembly, in the judges of the Court of Appeals, or any one of them, and not in the chancellors. See Supplement to the Revised Code, p. 45, 46 ; ch. 41, sect. 2