Finley v. Brent
Supreme Court of Virginia
Appeal from decree of circuit court of Northumberland county, rendered 29th June, 1888, in a chancery cause wherein W. Finley, S. W. Finley and M. E. Eichelberger are complainants, and A. J. Brent, W. P. Anderson, and 0. S. Gulick are defendants. The decree dismissed the complainants’ bill, and they appealed. Opinion states the case.
1Opinion of the CourtLacy, J.
*104The bill was filed by the appellants to construe a deed made by one William Harding, on the first day of October, 1860, and to enforce the same for thein benefit.
This deed was a grant in trust to trustees, by the said William Harding and wife, of a lot or parcel of land described therein, “on which the new Methodist Protestant Church, in Heathsville, was erected, in the said county of Northumberland, for the use and benefit of the religious congregation of the Methodist Protestant Church at Heathsville, which will assemble there for the purpose of worship,” to have and to hold the same “in…
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