Rhea v. Shields
Supreme Court of Virginia
Appeal from a decree pronounced by tbe Law and Chancery Court of the city of Norfolk, in a suit in chancery, wherein the appellee, L. H. Shields, trustee, was the complainant, and the appellants and another were the defendants. This was a suit for the sale of lands of persons under disabilities. Sundry pieces of land were sold, the sales confirmed, the purchase money paid, and deeds made to the purchasers.
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Appeal from a decree pronounced by tbe Law and Chancery Court of the city of Norfolk, in a suit in chancery, wherein the appellee, L. H. Shields, trustee, was the complainant, and the appellants and another were the defendants. This was a suit for the sale of lands of persons under disabilities. Sundry pieces of land were sold, the sales confirmed, the purchase money paid, and deeds made to the purchasers. The present controversy grows out of a petition filed years afterwards by .the ultimate beneficiaries of a trust fund asking the court to set aside and annul all the previous proceedings in…
1Opinion of the CourtWhittle, J.
The real estate which is the subject of this controversy was •devised by Robert Rhea, Sr., to his executor, in trust for his ■son, William H. Rhea, Sr., for life, with remainder to such of his children as should survive him. The property consisted of seven improved lots in the city of Norfolk.
*307By successive. substitutions, L. IT. Shields succeeded the original trustee appointed by the will, and at August Buies, 1889, filed a bill in equity in the Corporation Court of the city of Norfolk against appellants, William TL Bhea, Sr., and his children — the latter all being infants at that time — for…
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