State Savings Bank v. Stewart
Supreme Court of Virginia
Appeal from a decree of the Hustings Court of the city of Roanoke, pronounced September 30,1893, in a suit in chancery, wherein the appellee was the complainant, and James Ellwood and others were the defendants.
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Appeal from a decree of the Hustings Court of the city of Roanoke, pronounced September 30,1893, in a suit in chancery, wherein the appellee was the complainant, and James Ellwood and others were the defendants. On March. 20, 1890, E. H. Stewart and wife conveyed to James Ellwood two lots of land in the city of Roanoke, describing them as situated at the Northwest corner of Trout avenue and “ I ” street, and also describing them as lots 91 and 10, section 5 of the West End map, to be found on file in the clerk’s office of the Hustings Court of the city of Roanoke, Va., to which map'reference…
1Opinion of the CourtBuchanan, J.
The appellee brought suit to subject two lots in the city of Roanoke to the payment of liens thereon. The appellant the State Savings Bank, denied that the debt of the appellee was a lien upon the lots sought to be sold, but the court was of opinion that it was not only a lien, but superior to that of said appellant, and so decreed. From that decree this appeal was taken.
A separate deed of trust was given to secure each debt. If the lots sought to be sold were embraced in the deed of trust given to secure the debt of the appellee, there is no question that his lien is superior to that of the…
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