DECIDED IN THE

SUPREME COURT OF APPEALS

OF VIRGINIA.

BY PEACHY R. GRATTAN.

VOL. XXVII.

FROM JANUARY 1, 1876, TO JANUARY 1, 1877.

RICHMOND:

R. F. WALKER, SUPERINTENDENT OF PUBLIC PRINTING.

1877.

Entered according to Act of Congress, in the year one thousand eight hundred

and seventy-seven, by the

COMMONWEALTH OF VIRGINIA,

In the Office of the Librarian of Congress, et Washington.

CLEMMITT & JONES,

RANDOLPH & ENGLISH,

PRINTERS.

BINDERS.

JUDGES

OF THE

SUPREME COURT OF APPEALS

DURING THE TIME OF THESE REPORTS.

R. C. L. MONCURE, PREsident.

JOSEPH CHRISTIAN.

FRANCIS T. ANDERSON.

WALLER R. STAPLES.

WOOD BOULDIN.*

Attorney General,

RALEIGH T. DANIEL.

* Judge Bouldin did not sit in any of the cases reported in this volume.

on the 10th day of October, A. D. 1876.

76613

He died