Supreme Court of Virginia July 15, 1846 (Bank of Washington v. Arthur)

Baldwin. J.

delivered the opinion of the Court.

It appears to the Court, that by the contract between James S. Arthur and John B. Steenbergen, in the proceedings mentioned, Arthur agreed to pay to Steenbergen the sum of forty thousand dollars, in certain deferred instalments, with interest thereon from a period shortly subsequent to the date of the contract, in consideration of certain