Sheppards v. Turpin
Supreme Court of Virginia
By deed bearing date the 3d day of February 1813, Benjamin Haley conveyed to George Williamson and Miles Turpin, the whole of his property, consisting of a lot in the City of Richmond, a number of slaves, horses, all the fixtures and tools about his brickyard, brick, brickwood, all his household and kitchen furniture, and debts due to him, upon trust for the payment of all debts due to certain creditors therein named, and to such other of his creditors as should sign the…
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By deed bearing date the 3d day of February 1813, Benjamin Haley conveyed to George Williamson and Miles Turpin, the whole of his property, consisting of a lot in the City of Richmond, a number of slaves, horses, all the fixtures and tools about his brickyard, brick, brickwood, all his household and kitchen furniture, and debts due to him, upon trust for the payment of all debts due to certain creditors therein named, and to such other of his creditors as should sign the deed or should assent thereto by the 1st of April following. The deed then provides that if Haley fails to pay these debts…
1Opinion of the CourtDaniel, J.
The causes of error assigned by the appellants in these two cases are, with slight modifications adapted to the different relative positions of the partjes^ common t0 both. No inconvenience or confugjon bas resuited from their being heard together in this Court; and in stating the conclusions to which my mind has arrived in considering them, I do not deem it necessary to sever them. The grounds mainly relied on by the Sheppards in the Court below, and on which they still insist in this Court, as causes for reversing the decrees of the Chancellor in both cases, are: 1st, That a Court of Equity…
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