Nicholas v. Austin
Supreme Court of Virginia
Appeal from decree of circuit court' of Rockingham county, rendered October 21st, 1884, in a cause in which Huldah Austin, by her next friend, R. H. Austin, is complainant, and Isaac B. Nicholas and John H. Austin are defendants. The decree was unfavorable .to Nicholas, and he appealed to this court.
1Opinion of the CourtFauntleroy, J.
At the June rules, 1882, the complainant, Huldah Austin, filed her bill, alleging that on the seventeenth day of March, 1858, her husband, John H. Austin, being largely indebted, with certain judgment liens resting on his real estate, consisting of a farm of 140 acres of land near Port Republic, Rockingham county, -Virginia, and being desirous of paying off the said liens, and relieving himself from debt, and being compelled to sell his said real estate in order to do so, he entered into a contract of sale of the said tract of land with one Jacob B. Nicholas, of Rockingham county, at the…
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