TRANSCRIPT OF RECORD.
SUPREME COURT OF THE UNITED STATES.
JOHN L. BACON AND H. E. C. BASKERVILLE, PARTNERS
TINDER THE STYLE AND FIRM OF BACON & BASKERVILLE ET AL., APPELLANTS,
VS.
GEORGE C. RIVES, IN HIS OWN RIGHT AND AS ADMINIS.
TRATOR DE BONIS NON, &C., OF GEORGE RIVES, DECEASED; J. HENRY RIVES, EXECUTOR OF GEORGE
RIVES, DECEASED; AND ALFRED L. RIVES, EXECUTOR
OF WILLIAM C. RIVES, DECEASED.
APPEAL FROM THE CIRCUIT COURT OF THE UNITED STATES FOR THE
WESTERN DISTRICT OF VIRGINIA.
FILED AUGUST 21, 1879.!;
'
'
{
};
'
™e
eS TE, A ee
/,
/
i;; j
IN TILE
OCTOBER PERM, ISst.
BACON AND BASKERVILLE, ET AL., Appellants.
VS.
GEORGE C. RIVES, ET AL.
ln printing the Brief in' this case, of Counsel for the
Appellee, Geo. C. Rives, the following portion of it as prepared, and which ought to have been inserted just after the wate on page 3, was, by inadvertence, omitted, viz:
THE DEMURRER.
That the defence of the Statute of Limitations may be properly raised by demurrer to the Plaintiffs bill, is plain from the following authorities, viz:
I Sto. Eq. PL (Ed. S48) p. 517, See. 454.
+ ia. * ial.
Hudson vs. Wheeler, 54 Texas R. 362, Xe.
What is styled in the transeript an "amended" bill was in fact a substitute, by eonsent, for the original bill. This aecounts for its being addressed to the Judge of the State
Court, and also explains why the Demurrer is to the Bill, and
". ree >…