Cowardin v. Anderson
Supreme Court of Virginia
Appeal from decree of chancery court of city of Richmond, rendered 24th February, 1881, in a suit wherein J. M. Anderson, commissioner, is complainant, and William L. Cowardin and others are defendants.
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Appeal from decree of chancery court of city of Richmond, rendered 24th February, 1881, in a suit wherein J. M. Anderson, commissioner, is complainant, and William L. Cowardin and others are defendants. Said Anderson, the appellee, obtained 16th February, 1875, a decree in the circuit court of Henrico county against William Coulling and another for the sum of $1,100, which was duly docketed in the clerk’s office of Henrico county court on 7th July following, and in the clerk’s office of the chancery court of said city on 22d June, 1876. The bill was filed to subject to the satisfaction of…
1Opinion of the Court
Lewis, P.,
after stating the case, delivered the opinion of the court.
The controversy is between Anderson, claiming the right to subject the land as a judgment creditor, on the one hand, and the appellant, on the other, claiming it as a purchaser. The counsel have ably discussed a number of interesting and important questions, of which, in the view we take of the case, it is necessary to consider one only.
It is well settled that ordinarily no greater interest in real estate than the judgment debtor himself has is availa*90ble for the satisfaction of a judgment against him. In other words, that…
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