Stokes v. Oliver
Supreme Court of Virginia
Appeal from decrees of circuit court of Henrico county in suit of J. B. Oliver and other creditors of Colin Stokes, deceased, against Henry Stokes, Bichard Stokes, Bobert S. Bagley and Susan, his wife, children, and Sarah M. Stokes, widow of Colin Stokes, deceased.
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Appeal from decrees of circuit court of Henrico county in suit of J. B. Oliver and other creditors of Colin Stokes, deceased, against Henry Stokes, Bichard Stokes, Bobert S. Bagley and Susan, his wife, children, and Sarah M. Stokes, widow of Colin Stokes, deceased. The object of the suit was to annul conveyances of land lying in Lunenburg and Prince Edward counties, made in December, 1863, by the decedent to Henry Stokes, Bichard Stokes, and Susan Bagley, as voluntary and on that account fraudulent and void as to the creditors of the decedent, whose debts were contracted before the execution…
1Opinion of the CourtAnderson, J.
This is a suit by creditors of Colin Stokes, deceased, to subject lands held severally by the appellants—Henry Stokes, Richard Stokes, and Robert S. Bagley and Susan, his wife—to the payment of his debts.
The following are, I think, established facts in the cause Henry, Richard and Susan were the only children of Colin 'Stokes. In 1853 he made a contract with his son Henry, who was then fettled upon a farm which he owned in the ■county of Lunenburg, that if he would pay him $2,500 in cash he would give him part of a tract of land, according to certain boundaries, which he owned on Bush river,…
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