Pratt v. Cox
Supreme Court of Virginia
In April 1856, Philip D. Cox and six othei’s, children of A. H. Cox, two of whom were infants, filed their bill in the Circuit court of Smyth county, in which they state that A. H. Cox, on the 10th of May 1843, conveyed to Philip Umbai’ger, two tracts of land containing two hundred and fifty acres, in the Rich Valley on the north fork of Holston rivei’, where said A. H. Cox resided, upon a trust expressed in an article of agreement between them dated the 1st of February…
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In April 1856, Philip D. Cox and six othei’s, children of A. H. Cox, two of whom were infants, filed their bill in the Circuit court of Smyth county, in which they state that A. H. Cox, on the 10th of May 1843, conveyed to Philip Umbai’ger, two tracts of land containing two hundred and fifty acres, in the Rich Valley on the north fork of Holston rivei’, where said A. H. Cox resided, upon a trust expressed in an article of agreement between them dated the 1st of February 1843, that said TTmbarger and his wife would make to the plaintiffs a right in fee simple to said land, on condition that…
1Opinion of the CourtBouldin, J.
The only evidence assailing the validity of the deeds-in the proceedings mentioned from A. H. Cox to TTmharger, and from TTmbarger to the appellees, P. D. Cox and others, children of A. H. Cox, is the evidence, oral and documentary, contained in the record of the case of David Sexton v. A. H. Cox and others, filed as an exhibit with the answer of P. C. Buchanan, Jr.; but that record was referred to also in the bill, and has been read and relied on as evidence throughout the proceedings by both sides, without exception or objection thereto by any of the parties, either in the court below or in…
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