Mordecai v. . Devereux

The petitioners, Merrimon, Fuller Ashe, and Moore Gatling, alleged: That Moore Gatling appearing in behalf of the creditors of the late Thomas P. Devereux, the plaintiffs in this action instituted the action in the Superior Court of Halifax County, on the 25th day of January, 1870, praying to have the defendants, the only heirs at law of Thos. P. Devereux, decreed to execute certain trusts in favor of the creditors of their ancestor, declared in a deed of settlement executed by the late Francis Devereux on the 3d day of July, 1839.

All the matters of law involved in said action, having been…