Bell v. McConkey
Supreme Court of Virginia
Appeal from decree of circuit court of Montgomery county, entered 5th December, 1882, in the chancery cause wherein S. A. McConkey, the personal representatives of J. McG. Kent, J. A. Langhorn, and others, are complainants, and F. Bell and wife, and others, are defendants, and in the cross-bill of John T. Cowan and wife, complainants, and said F. Bell and wife and other devisees of James R. Kent, deceased, defendants.
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Appeal from decree of circuit court of Montgomery county, entered 5th December, 1882, in the chancery cause wherein S. A. McConkey, the personal representatives of J. McG. Kent, J. A. Langhorn, and others, are complainants, and F. Bell and wife, and others, are defendants, and in the cross-bill of John T. Cowan and wife, complainants, and said F. Bell and wife and other devisees of James R. Kent, deceased, defendants. This suit was brought to subject the lands of said James R. Kent, in the hands of his devisees, to the payment of certain judgments against one W. H. Peck, as principal, and…
1Opinion of the CourtLacy, J.
This is an appeal from a decree of the circuit court of Montgomery county, rendered on the 5th day of December, 1882.
The suit is by judgment creditors of Jas. B. Kent, deceased, and of William H. Peck, against the executors of the said Jas. B. Kent, deceased, and their securities as such, the devisees of said Kent, the said Wm. H. Peck, then a bankrupt, and his assignees, Borneo H. Freer and Joseph Shields, to settle up the estate of the said Kent, and subject his lands in the hands of his devisees to the satisfaction of the said judgments.
The suit was brought in 1869, and the judgments…
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