Peters v. Neville's trustee
Supreme Court of Virginia
This was a suit in equity in the Circuit court of Nelson county, brought by Frederick Gr. Peters, to subject the real estate of LaFayette Neville to satisfy the plaintiff’s judgments. Other creditors of Neville came in by petition; the land was sold by commissioners in 1860, upon a credit of one, two and three years; and in that year Peters was appointed a receiver to collect the purchase money.
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This was a suit in equity in the Circuit court of Nelson county, brought by Frederick Gr. Peters, to subject the real estate of LaFayette Neville to satisfy the plaintiff’s judgments. Other creditors of Neville came in by petition; the land was sold by commissioners in 1860, upon a credit of one, two and three years; and in that year Peters was appointed a receiver to collect the purchase money. The only material question in the case is, whether moneys collected ■during the war by Peters should be scaled? The court below refused to scale them, and Peters applied to a judge of this court for…
1Opinion of the Court
Monoure, P.
delivered the opinion of the court.
The main and almost the only question arising in this case is, whether the amounts collected by the appellant, P. G. Peters, as receiver in this case, in Confederate money, ought to have been scaled ?
The following is a statement of the facts and history of the case, so far as material to be stated.
This suit was brought in March 1859 by the appellant, the said P. G. Peters, to enforce his judgment liens against the real estate of LaPayette Neville, deceased, consisting of a tract of land in the county of Nelson known as “Locust Grove,” containing…
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