Simon v. Ellison
Supreme Court of Virginia
Appeal from circuit court, Washington county; Shelfey, Judge. Suit by John B. Ellison & Son and others against H. J. Simon and others to set aside a homestead deed and an assignment for creditors, with preferences, as fraudulent. Decree for complainants. Defendants appeal.
1Opinion of the CourtCabdwell, J.
H. J. Simon, one of the appellants here, resided in the city of Bristol, on the Tennessee side of the dividing line between Tennessee and Virginia, and conducted business as a merchant tailor on the Virginia side from some time in 1890 to about the 2d of April, 1892. On the latter date, or about that time, he moved his residence into Virginia, and on the very day that he took up his residence here, or within two days thereafter, he made and filed for record a homestead deed, claiming as ■exempt, under the homestead law, provided by the constitution and laws of this state, the fixtures in his…
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