Chapman v. Price
Supreme Court of Virginia
Appeal from decree of circuit court of Franklin county, in the chancery cause wherein Price and others were complainants and H. C. Chapman and others were defendants.
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Appeal from decree of circuit court of Franklin county, in the chancery cause wherein Price and others were complainants and H. C. Chapman and others were defendants. The object of the suit was to enforce the judgments of the complainants against the defendant, H. C. Chapman, on the alleged tenancy by the curtesy in a certain tract of land in said county, which had been conveyed to the wife of said Chapman by. her parent's deed dated November 2d, 1876, and containing terms intended to exclude his marital rights. She made her will, devising the land to her children, and died in 1881. The…
1Opinion of the CourtHinton, J.
On the second day of November, 1876, Benjamin Deyerle and wife executed a deed conveying, with general warranty, a certain tract of land in the county of Franklin to his daughter, Susan J. Chapman, wife of H. C. Chapman, “to have and to hold in her own right free from any claim or demands from her husband, or any other person or persons claiming under, through, or against him in any way, now or at any time thereafter," the word “ thereafter" being manifestly intended for “ hereafter." The consideration for the grant expressed in the conveyance is the love and affection borne by the grantors…
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