Justice v. English
Supreme Court of Virginia
This case was heard at Richmond, but was decided at Wytheville. The case is fully stated in the opinion of Judge Burks.
1Opinion of the CourtBurks, J.
The heirs of Lucy Ann Leber, deceased, filed their bill in the chancery court of the city of Richmond against William M. Justis and others to set aside a deed made on the 7th day of May, 1847, by the said Lucy Ann Leber to John Watkins, and to have surrendered to them two lots of land near the city of Richmond, conveyed by said deed and claimed by the said Justis and others through said Watkins by successive conveyances.
The chancellor, at the hearing of the cause, rendered a decree declaring the deed to be absolutely null and void, and the lots to be the absolute property of the heirs, and…
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