Elder's Ex'ors v. Harris
Supreme Court of Virginia
This was a motion to dismiss an appeal on the ground that it was improvidently awarded. It was a suit in the circuit court of Lunenburg by Elder’s ex’ors and others, creditors of John A. Harris, to set aside a deed made by said John A. Harris to William A. Harris, and a deed made by William A. Harris to Junius H. Harris, on the ground that the deeds were made to hinder, delay and defraud the ■creditors of John A. Harris.
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This was a motion to dismiss an appeal on the ground that it was improvidently awarded. It was a suit in the circuit court of Lunenburg by Elder’s ex’ors and others, creditors of John A. Harris, to set aside a deed made by said John A. Harris to William A. Harris, and a deed made by William A. Harris to Junius H. Harris, on the ground that the deeds were made to hinder, delay and defraud the ■creditors of John A. Harris. The case was once before in this court, when the deeds were held to be fraudulent, and the case was sent back to the circuit court of Lunenburg for an account of the personal…
1Opinion of the CourtAnderson, J.
An order of reference was made in this cause at the June term of the circuit court of Lunenburg county, in conformity with a decree of this court, to a commissioner to state and settle an account of the personal property embraced in the deed of the 1st of November, 1865, from John A. Harris to William A. Harris, and the value thereof on the said 1st day of November, 1865; also an account of the rents actually received by William A. Harris from John A. Harris, and an account of the amount of the rents of the said land since the occupency thereof by John A. Harris.
An account was taken by…
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