Eggleston v. Eggleston

Kelly, P.,

delivered the opinion of the court.

This appeal brings before us three decrees which respectively sustained demurrers to an original and two amended bills. Under circumstantial variations, each of the bills stated substantially the same case. The material facts alleged, abbreviated from the fuller and more detailed statements in the bills, are as follows:

The complainant, Joseph E. Eggleston, in 1912 purchased a house and lot in South Richmond, which he has since occupied as a residence. When he bought this property, there was a, deed of trust upon it which he renewed, and which he…