Cox v. Carr
Supreme Court of Virginia
Appeal from decrees of circuit court of Loudoun county, entered May 6th, and October 25th, 1880, respectively, in the cause of John E. Cox, complainant, v. David Carr, Joel L. Nixon, trustee, Thomas W. Edwards, Godfrey Shelburne, and Albert Shiner, defendants. The first decree dismissed the bill as to defendants, Shelburne and Shiner. The second dismissed it as to all the defendants. From these decrees said Cox obtained an appeal to this court.
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Appeal from decrees of circuit court of Loudoun county, entered May 6th, and October 25th, 1880, respectively, in the cause of John E. Cox, complainant, v. David Carr, Joel L. Nixon, trustee, Thomas W. Edwards, Godfrey Shelburne, and Albert Shiner, defendants. The first decree dismissed the bill as to defendants, Shelburne and Shiner. The second dismissed it as to all the defendants. From these decrees said Cox obtained an appeal to this court. The appeal was heard in November, 1883, and dismissed, because it was adjudged that the amount in controversy fell short of the minimum sum of $500…
1Opinion of the CourtRichardson, J.
On the 9th day of January, 1857, John T. Perry conveyed to J. L. Nixon, trustee, a house and lot in the town of Leesburg, Loudoun county, Va., to secure to Thomas W. Edwards the purchase money thereof, the same having been sold and conveyed by said Edwards to said Perry. At the time of executing the above named trust deed, said Perry was debtor by tw;o judgments for a considerable amount, one in the name of George H. Bayne and the other in the name of George H. Bayne’s administrator, on which judgments executions had issued and gone *30into the hands of the sheriff. These judgments were docketed…
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