Cornwall v. Commonwealth

Citations

• 82 Va. 644
• 1886 Va. LEXIS 82

Syllabus

<p>1. Commonwealth—Suits against.—No one can sue the State except by her consent and as provided by law.</p> <p>2. Constitution oe U. S., Art. I, Sec. 10—Buies of evidence.—This section has no application whatever to rules of evidence prescribed by the law-making power of this State to govern proceedings in her own courts.</p> <p>3. Idem—Taxes—Coupons—State bonds.—Act of January 26, 1886 (Acts 1885-6, p. 40), requiring in any suit to test genuineness of coupons purporting to be cut from State bonds, production of the bonds with proof that the coupons were actually cut therefrom, is not repugnant to said section.</p> <p>4. Idem—Expert-evidence.—Act of January 21, 1886 (Acts 1885-6, p. 36), forbidding expert-evidence to prove genuineness of any instrument made by machinery, &e., is not repugnant to said section.</p>