Cobbs v. Gilchrist's Adm'r
Supreme Court of Virginia
Heard at Richmond, but decided at "Wytheville. Appeal from decree of corporation court of Danville, rendered at its May term, 1883, in the cause of Gilchrist’s administrator against ■ Howard Craft’s administrator and als., dismissing the petition or bill of Cobbs, assignee of Lydia Craft, bankrupt, claiming a certain surplus as part of tbe bankrupt’s estate. Opinion states the facts.
1Opinion of the CourtRichardson, J.
This is a controversy as to who is entitled to a certain fund remaining in the hands of the receiver in the suit of Cole, adm’r of Gilchrist, against one Young and Howard Craft’s adm’r, brought many years ago in the circuit court of Pittsyl-vania county, and there prosecuted until removed to the corporation court of Danville. The object of that suit was to avoid, for fraud, a contract and conveyance by Gilchrist to Young, of certain very valuable real estate in Pittsylvania county, Virginia, and in the state of Kentucky, which conveyance was fraudulently procured hy a corrupt combination…
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