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[[File:HeningMunfordPopevTowles1810v3p47.jpg|link={{filepath:Hening&Munford1810V3PopevTowles.pdf}}|thumb|right|300px|First page of the opinion [[Media:Hening&Munford1810V3PopevTowles.pdf|''Pope v. Towles'']], in [https://wm.primo.exlibrisgroup.com/permalink/01COWM_INST/g9pr7p/alma991002298109703196 ''Reports of Cases Argued and Determined in the Supreme Court of Appeals of Virginia: With Select Cases, Relating Chiefly to Points of Practice, Decided by the Superior Court of Chancery for the Richmond District''], by William Hening and William Munford. New York: I. Riley, 1810.]]
[[Media:Hening&Munford1810V3PopevTowles.pdf|''Pope v. Towles'']], 13 Va. (3 Hen. & M.) 47 (1808),<ref>Daniel Call, ''Reports of Cases Argued and Determined in the Supreme Court of Appeals of Virginia: With Select Cases, Relating Chiefly to Points of Practice, Decided by the Superior Court of Chancery for the Richmond District'' (New York: I. Riley, 1810), 3:47.</ref> was a case involving a contract dispute over the shipment of tobacco.

==Background==
Nicholas Lewis owed John Wily 12,000 lbs of tobacco. John Wily sued Nicholas in General Court and hired Duval as his attorney. Nicholas died after a judgment was made in the Court chambers but before it could be heard in the upcoming term. The Court Clerk, unaware of Nicholas’s death, entered a final judgment against him in October 1783.  On March 5, 1801, the suit was abated because of the death of Towles. However, a subpoena to revive the cases was awarded.

===The Court's Decision===
[[George Wythe|Chancellor Wythe]] dismissed the case. The Court of Appeals unanimously affirmed the decree.

==See also==
*[[Wythe's Judicial Career]]

==References==
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