Wampler v. Wampler
Supreme Court of Virginia
This was an appeal from the decree of the circuit court of Bland county dismissing a bill filed by Abraham Wampler against his son, Ephraim Wampler, to set aside a deed which the plaintiff and his wife has executed, conveying a tract of land to the said Ephraim Wampler. The defendant demurred to the bill.
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This was an appeal from the decree of the circuit court of Bland county dismissing a bill filed by Abraham Wampler against his son, Ephraim Wampler, to set aside a deed which the plaintiff and his wife has executed, conveying a tract of land to the said Ephraim Wampler. The defendant demurred to the bill. The cause came on to be heard at the May term, 1878, of the court, when the court sustained the demurrer and ‘dismissed the bill; and thereupon Abraham Wampler applied to_ a judge of this court for an appeal, which was allowed. The case is fully staled by Judge Christian in his opinion.
1Opinion of the CourtChristian, J.
*158The single question we have to determine in this case is, whether the circuit court erred in sustaining the demurrer to the plaintiff’s bill. The bill charges that the plaintiff and his wife on the 27th November, 1872, executed a deed conveying to his son a certain tract of land therein mentioned, in consideration (as expressed in the deed) that his son “should provide for and take good care of him and his wife so long as they may live, in a comfortable manner, both in sickness and in health;” and for the further consideration (not expressed in the deed) that his said son should build on the…
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