Massie's Adm'r v. Heiskell's Trustee
Supreme Court of Virginia
Argued at 'Wytheville, and decided at Staunton. This is an appeal from a decree of the circuit court of Washington county, rendered on the 25th day of February, 1884, in the cause of D. Trigg, trustee of W. K. Heiskell, against W. A. Stuart, G. W. Palmer, T. L. Preston, Holstou Salt and Plaster Company and N. H. Massie; and the cross-cause of N. H. Massie and T. L. Preston against Trigg, Stuart & Palmer, and said company.
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Argued at 'Wytheville, and decided at Staunton. This is an appeal from a decree of the circuit court of Washington county, rendered on the 25th day of February, 1884, in the cause of D. Trigg, trustee of W. K. Heiskell, against W. A. Stuart, G. W. Palmer, T. L. Preston, Holstou Salt and Plaster Company and N. H. Massie; and the cross-cause of N. H. Massie and T. L. Preston against Trigg, Stuart & Palmer, and said company. This cause is a sequel to the cause of Preston and Massie v. Holston Salt and Plaster Company, 82 Gratt. 48, where its history is fully detailed. Only such outline will be…
1Opinion of the CourtEiohardsoN, J.
The complications of this ease ai’e more appai’ent than real, and are caused by the triangulai’ity of the demands set up-by the several parties, and by the numerous pleadings in which the same matters are iterated and reitei’atecl. One of the most difficult questions in it, that is, the construction of the deeds of conveyance from Heiskell to Preston, and from Preston to Stuart & Palmer, on the first appeal passed into res judicata; as this coui’t decided that those deeds conveyed the entire interests (except the Hunter interest,) of Heiskell in the King’s Salt Woi’ks estate; that those…
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