Buckner v. Metz
Supreme Court of Virginia
Appeal from decree of circuit court of Louisa county in the chancery cause of Baldwin M. Buckner, complainant, against John A. Metz, and Elizabeth, his wife, and Philip Metz, defendants.
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Appeal from decree of circuit court of Louisa county in the chancery cause of Baldwin M. Buckner, complainant, against John A. Metz, and Elizabeth, his wife, and Philip Metz, defendants. On 26th March, 1875, Buckner got judgment in said court against John A. Metz for $1,689.99. This suit was brought to enforce the lien of this judgment on eighteen and a quarter acres of land, whereof John A. Metz was seized at the date of the judgment, but which he subsequently set apart as his homestead, and which he and his wife on 4th August, 1876, conveyed to Philip Metz. Defendants resisted the relief…
1Opinion of the CourtFauntleroy, J.
This is an appeal from a final decree of the circuit court of Louisa county rendered at the March term, 1878, in a chancery *122cause in said court then depending, in which Baldwin M. Buckner, the appellant here, was complainant, and John A. Metz and Elizabeth, his wife, and Philip Metz were defendants. A transcript of the record of the cause shows the following material facts :
On March 8th, 1871, the appellant, B. M. Buckner sold to John A. Metz, two separate and distinct lots or parcels of land, by separate and distinct contracts, for the price of twenty dollars per acre; one of the tracts was…
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