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· 1/23/1890

Pettyjohn's Ex'ors v. Woodruff's Ex'or

Citations

  • 86 Va. 478
  • 10 S.E. 715
  • 1890 Va. LEXIS 7

Syllabus

<p>Partnership—Social assets—Social creditors.—The social assets are applicable first to the social debts, and if insufficient, the social creditors come in as general creditors pari passu, with separate creditors of the same class upon the separate estate of the deceased partner.</p>

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  • construing another part of the substituted service statute, plaintiffs with actual knowledge that defendant left the state could not use substituted service by sheriff where statute also requires they deliver summons to sheriff with the intent that defendant be served
  • construing another part of the substituted service statute, plaintiffs with actual knowledge that defendant left the state could not use substituted service by sheriff where statute also requires they deliver summons to sheriff with the intent that defendant be served

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Judges: Fauntleroy

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