Fore v. Foster

Citations

• 86 Va. 104
• 9 S.E. 497
• 1889 Va. LEXIS 15

Syllabus

<p>1. Equitable jurisdiction and relief—Mistakes—Statute of limitations— Laches.—Chancery courts have jurisdiction to correct mistakes, whether occurring in the course of legal proceedings or elsewhere; and though the statute of limitations is as much a bar in equity as at law to demands whereof the two have concurrent jurisdiction, yet to mere equitable demands the statute cannot be set up as an absolute bar, except in cases of laches or of acquiescence for such length of time as evidences that the demands had been adjusted.</p> <p>2. Chancery ' practice—Parties.—Persons who have had, but who have aliened their interests in the matter in litigation and received the price, need not be madfe parties.</p>