McAden v. Keen
Supreme Court of Virginia
This case was heard at Richmond, but was decided at Wytheville. It was a creditor’s bill in the circuit court of Pittsylvania comity, brought in 1870 by James McAden and others against W. W. Keen and Robert A. Walters and others, purchasers of real estate from Keen, to subject the said real estate to satisfy the judgments * of the plaintiffs. There were two amendments of the bill bringing in other parties.
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This case was heard at Richmond, but was decided at Wytheville. It was a creditor’s bill in the circuit court of Pittsylvania comity, brought in 1870 by James McAden and others against W. W. Keen and Robert A. Walters and others, purchasers of real estate from Keen, to subject the said real estate to satisfy the judgments * of the plaintiffs. There were two amendments of the bill bringing in other parties. It appears that in 1867 Keen filed his petition in bankruptcy, and in September, 1869, received his discharge; that these plaintiffs were creditors who proved their debts; that the lands…
1Opinion of the Court
MOKCURE, P.,
delivered the opinion of the court.
This cause, which is pending in this court at Richmond, having been there fully heard but not determined, this day came here the parties, by their counsel, and the *court having maturely considered the transcript of the record of the degree aforesaid and the argument of counsel, is of opinion that only the estate of a bankrupt, whatever it may be at the time of his becoming such, including of course any estate he may have aliened, by an act fraudulent and void as to his creditors, is vested in his assignees, in bankruptcy for the benefit of his…
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