Nicholson v. Gloucester Charity School
Supreme Court of Virginia
Appeal from a decree of the Circuit Court of Gloucester County, pronounced May 16, 1893, in a suit in chancery, wherein the appellant was the complainant, and the appellee and others were defendants.
1Opinion of the Court
Keith, P.,
delivered the opinion of the court.
The “Gloucester Charity School,” a corporation created by act of the Virginia Legislature, filed a bill in chancery in the Circuit Court of the county of Gloucester, to which W. T. Robins and S. N. Robins, and the trustees and beneficiaries in certain deeds of trust, in which Robins and his wife were grantors, were made parties defendant, and show, among others, the following facts:
That on the 21st of October, 1882, Robins and wife executed a trust deed to John S. Cooke, conveying to him, as trustee, a farm known as “Fiddler’s Green,” to secure a…
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