U.S. Circuit Court for the District of Eastern Virginia December 19, 1885 (Jones v. Virginia)

Hughes, J.

These causes were pending in the hustings court for the city of Richmond, and one of them in that of Norfolk, on petitions for-the verification of coupons cut from bonds of Virginia which had been tendered for taxes under the act of the general assembly approved January 14, 1882, “to prevent frauds upon the commonwealth,” etc, ■The ground on which they have been brought here is that,