Legal Opinion

Borst v. Nalle

Supreme Court of Virginia

Decided March 15, 1877PublishedCited by 28 opinions

This was a suit in equity in the circuit court of Culpeper county, brought in August 1869, by Thomas B. Nalle, to subject certain lands to satisfy a judgment recovered by him against William B. Ross and James A. Beck-ham, in November 1860. One of the tracts of land had been conveyed by said Beckham to Franklin Stearns and John M. Botts in 1862, and another tract was conveyed by Ross to Peter B. Borst in March 1865. In November 1871 the court made a decree in the cause by…

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This was a suit in equity in the circuit court of Culpeper county, brought in August 1869, by Thomas B. Nalle, to subject certain lands to satisfy a judgment recovered by him against William B. Ross and James A. Beck-ham, in November 1860. One of the tracts of land had been conveyed by said Beckham to Franklin Stearns and John M. Botts in 1862, and another tract was conveyed by Ross to Peter B. Borst in March 1865. In November 1871 the court made a decree in the cause by which it was held that the land conveyed to Borst was primarily liable to the payment of the plaintiffs’ debt; and a…

1Opinion of the CourtBurks, J.

In November i860, the appellee, ThomasNalle, recovered a judgment in the county court of Culpeper against William B. Ross and James A. Beckham, his surety, and caused the same to be docketed in said county court on the 3rd day of November, 1865. At the date of the judgment, Beck-ham was seized of several tracts of land in the county of Culpeper, which he conveyed to John Minor Botts and Franklin '^Stearns by deed dated the 10th day of _ December, 1862, and admitted to record in the clerk’s office of said county court on the llth day of December, 1862.

Between the date of the judgment and the…

2Cases cited15 opinions

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  5. Mauzy v. SellarsSupreme Court of Virginia · 1875

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3Cited by28 opinions

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