Gregg v. Sloan
Supreme Court of Virginia
Appeal from decree of circuit court of Patrick county, in three suits heard together. In first, Mary D. Gregg was plaintiff, and Wilson & Shober, of North Carolina, and their Virginia debtors, Staples, Woolwine, Brown and Penn, were defendants. Its object was to collect debt due plaintiff by attaching money due the non-residents from their Virginia debtors. In second, S. D. Peeler was plaintiff, and same persons were defendants; and its object was the same.
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Appeal from decree of circuit court of Patrick county, in three suits heard together. In first, Mary D. Gregg was plaintiff, and Wilson & Shober, of North Carolina, and their Virginia debtors, Staples, Woolwine, Brown and Penn, were defendants. Its object was to collect debt due plaintiff by attaching money due the non-residents from their Virginia debtors. In second, S. D. Peeler was plaintiff, and same persons were defendants; and its object was the same. In third, Sloan, Bowman and F. E. Shober were plaintiffs, and Mary D. Gregg and the parties to the two other suits, and A. M. Lybrook,…
1Opinion of the CourtBurks, J.
The case upon the merits is, in substance, this—Wilson & Shober, residents of Forth Carolina, conveyed their property to Sloan and others in trust to secure the payment of their debts. The property conveyed included ehoses- in action described in general terms, the evidences of which were delivered to the trustees at the date of the deed. One Fichólas Brown, among others, owed them a debt of considerable amount, and the terms of assignment in the deed were broad enough to cover and did cover this claim. The debt was secured by a deed of trust given by Brown *499on a tract of land in Virginia, and…
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