Kennerly v. Swartz & Son
Supreme Court of Virginia
Appeal from decrees of circuit court of Clarke county, pronounced, respectively, May 15 and May 20, 1885, in the creditors’ cause of David Meade and others, complainants, against J. F. Kennerly and others, defendants. The decree being adverse to the defendants, they obtained an appeal and supersedeas. Opinion states the case.
1Opinion of the Court
Lewis, P.,
delivered the opinion of the court.
This was a suit to subject the real estate of the defendant, J. F. Kennerly, the appellant here, to the satisfaction of judgment liens thereon. The bond upon which the *705appellees’ judgment was obtained was executed in February, 1870. The judgment itself was obtained in September, 1871, and constitutes a lien on the real estate of the appellant, which is an undivided one-fifth interest in a certain tract of land situate in the said county. At the time the judgment was obtained, the appellant was not married, nor was he a householder or the head of a…
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