Knotts v. Stearns
Supreme Court of the United States
Appeal from tbe Circuit Court of tbe United States for tbe Eastern District of Virginia.
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Field
delivered tbe opinion of tbe court.
This suit was brought to set aside a sale and conveyance of certain real estate situated in Richmond, Va., of which one Edwin Knotts died seized, made in 1865 under a decree of -the Circuit Court of that city, and to compel a delivery of the property to-the possession of the plaintiffs. The decree for the sale was obtained upon a bill filed for that purpose by the guardian of the infant children of the deceased, to which his widow was made a party. The property sold consisted of a house- and lot, which, with a few articles of household furniture, constituted…
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