Payne v. Hutcheson
Supreme Court of Virginia
*This was an appeal from a decree of the chancery court of the city of Richmond made on the 18th of April, 1876, in a suit brought in 1871 by Virginia Payne and others, creditors of John A. Hutcheson, deceased, against the administrator of said Hutcheson, and his widow and children.
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*This was an appeal from a decree of the chancery court of the city of Richmond made on the 18th of April, 1876, in a suit brought in 1871 by Virginia Payne and others, creditors of John A. Hutcheson, deceased, against the administrator of said Hutcheson, and his widow and children. The only part of' the case brought up to this court refers to the charge by the complainants that a deed executed by William Winkler’s executrix to R. A. Patterson, in trust for Mrs. Hutcheson and her children, was fraudulent and void as to the creditors of John A. Hutcheson. The facts are as follows: On the 27th…
1Opinion of the CourtStaples, J.
This is an appeal from a decree of the chancery court of Richmond. The evidence satisfactorily establishes that John A. Hutcheson, in the month of March, 1862, sold a tract of land near the city of Richmond, known as Windsor, for the sum of $22,570 in Confederate money; that his wife, Mrs. Emily T. Hutcheson, when she was informed of the sale, was greatly disturbed and dissatisfied with it, and peremptorily refused to relinquish her contingent dower interest therein. After repeated consultations *on the subject, Mr. Hutcheson agreed that he would purchase another tract, and settle it on his…
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