Moore v. Butler
Supreme Court of Virginia
Appeal from decree of circuit court of Hanover county, rendered October 26, 1891, in a chancery cause wherein J. S. Butler and others were complainants and L. A. Butler and others were defendants. The decree being adverse to the complainants, they appealed. Opiniou states the case.
1Opinion of the CourtLacy, J.
*684The controversy here is over certain trust deeds made by the appellees, J. F. Moore and L. A. Butler, some of the trusts were to secure certain valid debts, so held by the decree of the circuit court of Hanover, so conceded here now to be bona fide and valid.
But these parties, J. F. Moore and L. A. Butler, before the Code of Virginia, 1887, went into operation, made antenuptial deeds, conveying certain property, subject to the above mentioned deeds, to their prospective wives in consideration of marriage. These deeds were executed and recorded, and the marriages took place. Whereupon J. S.…
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