Herring v. Wickham
Supreme Court of Virginia
John H. Wickiiam, a man of high social standing and education, bad been notoriously living in an adulterous intercourse with Maria F. Kersey, an humble, uneducated and obscure woman, for twenty-five or thirty years, who had several children by him, the youngest of whom was about seventeen years old in 1870. He was about sixty-seven years old, and she was about fifty-five. The children begotten had not been educated, but had • been reared as inferiors.
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John H. Wickiiam, a man of high social standing and education, bad been notoriously living in an adulterous intercourse with Maria F. Kersey, an humble, uneducated and obscure woman, for twenty-five or thirty years, who had several children by him, the youngest of whom was about seventeen years old in 1870. He was about sixty-seven years old, and she was about fifty-five. The children begotten had not been educated, but had • been reared as inferiors. Down to about 1864, he was unembarrassed and wealthy, considered a money-lender. About 1864, or 1865, he began to be embarrassed, and in 1867,…
1Opinion of the CourtStaples, J.
The subject of controversy in this case is an ante-nuptial settlement made by John IT. "Wickham upon Maria F. Kersey and her children on the 23d of February, 1868. At that time Mr. Wickham was indebted to a very large amount, far beyond his means of payment, and his object in making the settlement, it is claimed, was to defraud his creditors. It Mr. Wickham was alone concerned, there would be little difficulty in declaring the settlement void as to his creditors; but he is not the only one; the parties chiefly interested are the wife and children, for whose benefit the settlement was…
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