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White v. Owen

Supreme Court of Virginia

Decided March 15, 1878PublishedCited by 10 opinions

This was a suit' in equity in the circuit court of Mecklenburg county, brought in March, 1865, by R. T. Owen to enforce a judgment which he had recovered against Luther Pixley, by subjecting certain real estate which Pixley and wife had conveyed in trust to -secure a debt due to W. T. White.

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This was a suit' in equity in the circuit court of Mecklenburg county, brought in March, 1865, by R. T. Owen to enforce a judgment which he had recovered against Luther Pixley, by subjecting certain real estate which Pixley and wife had conveyed in trust to -secure a debt due to W. T. White. It appeared that by deed dated the 9th of June, 1874, Pixley set aside certain personal property valued at $816, and so much of his real estate, which consisted of a house and lot, as would make up the sum of $2,000 as his homestead exemption. And by deed bearing date the 1st of August, 1874, Pixley and…

1Opinion of the CourtAnderson, J.

Luther Pixley, one of the appellees, on the 9th day of June, 1874, executed his deed of homestead, setting apart certain personal property which he valued at $816, and claiming the residue of what he was entitled to under the homestead law out of his hotel situate in Clarksville, which he valued at $3,000,which deed was afterwards, on the 11th of June, admitted to record.

Afterwards, on the 1st of August, 1874. the said Luther Pixley and Nannie, his wife, united in a deed conveying in trust to W. E. Homes, trustee, to secure a debt due from the said Luther Pixley to W. T. White by bond for…

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