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[[File:Hening&MunfordsReports1809V1ChesirevAtkinson.jpg|link=Media:Hening&MunfordsReports1809V1ChesirevAtkinson.pdf|thumb|right|300px|First page of the opinion [[Media:Hening&MunfordsReports1809V1ChesirevAtkinson.pdf|''Cheshire v. Wyld'']], in [Hening & Munford
http://wm-primo.hosted.exlibrisgroup.com/01COWM_WM:EVERYTHING:01COWM_WM_ALMA21593279330003196 ''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. 2nd ed. Flatbush: I. Riley, 1809.]]
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[[Media:Hening&MunfordsReports1809V1ChesirevAtkinson.pdf|''Cheshire v. Atkinson'']], Hening & Munford Vol. I 209 (1807),<ref>William Hening and William Munford, ''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,'' 2nd ed. (Flatbush: I. Riley, 1809), 1:209.</ref> the court determined whether a sheriff could be attached for carrying out a decree from a judge, although the sheriff knew the case was pending appeal. 

==Background==
A very brief case where the court determined that the plaintiff could not bring an attachment against a sheriff for carrying out a decree from a judge, just because he had notice of an appeal.

===The Court's Decision===
The Court found the attachment proceeding would not apply against the sheriff.

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

==References==
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