Williamson v. Gordon's Executors
Supreme Court of Virginia
OS the 20th day of October, 1807, Alexander St Clair oí' the town of Staunton executed a Deed to a certain Samuel Clarke, conveying a House and part of a Lot, “ then in the possession of Doctor William Bays” iu the said town, in trust to secure the payment of certain sums of money, therein specified, to Samvel Moore surviving partner of Robert Moore and Son, anil to Thornburgh and Miller of Baltimore; which Deed was duly recorded, in April, 1808. The said St. Clair being…
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OS the 20th day of October, 1807, Alexander St Clair oí' the town of Staunton executed a Deed to a certain Samuel Clarke, conveying a House and part of a Lot, “ then in the possession of Doctor William Bays” iu the said town, in trust to secure the payment of certain sums of money, therein specified, to Samvel Moore surviving partner of Robert Moore and Son, anil to Thornburgh and Miller of Baltimore; which Deed was duly recorded, in April, 1808. The said St. Clair being indebted to Thomas Gordon in a large sura of money by Bond, on which a suit was pending in Augusta Bounty Court, a written…
1Opinion of the Court
November 28th, 1816.
Judge Roane
pronounced the Court’s opinion, “ that the Decree is erroneous in this, that, as the “Appellant had the preferable right to call for the legal estate of “the premises in question, outstanding in the Trustee Clarke, he “ ought to have been protected against the claim of Gordon’s “Executors in the proceedings mentioned.”
Decree reversed, with costs; and this Court proceeding, &c., it was farther decreed and ordered, “ that the. Injunction “awarded the Appellant be made perpetual, and that he be “quieted in the possession of the houses and lots in the Bill “and…
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