Grant v. Sutton
Supreme Court of Virginia
Appeal from two decrees of circuit court of "Washington county, rendered October 15,1891, and January 20, 1892, in a chancery cause wherein John F. Sutton was complainant and Mrs. Martha G. Grant was defendant. The decree being adverse to her, she appealed. Opinion states the case.
1Opinion of the Court
Lewis, P.,
delivered the opinion of the court.
This was a suit to subject certain real estate, standing in the name of the appellant, Mrs. Martha G. Grant, to the satisfaction of three judgments against the complainant, John P. Sutton, as the-endorser of H. M. Grant, the husband of the appellant, which judgments had been paid by the complainant.
*772The bill states that the real estate in question, or the money with which it was purchased, was given to the appellant by her husband, who was insolvent, and that the same is liable to the satisfaction of the judgments. In denial of this allegation the…
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