Peery's Administrator v. Elliott
Supreme Court of Virginia
Appeal from a decree of the Circuit Court of Bland county, pronounced May 18, 1901, in sundry chancery suits heard together, in one of which the appellant filed a petition seeking to be admitted as a party complainant.
1Opinion of the CourtWhittle, J.
The controversy involved in this appeal is a branch of a litigation embracing seven separate suits in equity, all having the common object of subjecting the real estate of T. G-. Hudson and Isaac Hudson to the satisfaction of liens.
A practice which thus harasses .debtors by a multiplicity of suits, and subjects them to unnecessary cost, is oppressive, and ought not to be sanctioned by a court of equity.
Among the liens involved in that litigation is a deed of trust, bearing date April 25, 1S85, from T. G. Hudson, conveying real estate, to secure a liability to Elias Foglesong, whose…
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