Brockenbrough's v. Brockenbrough's
Supreme Court of Virginia
This was a suit in equity in the circuit court of Biehmond county, brought in March, 1874, by Lucy C. Brockenbrough, executrix of Littleton Brockenbrough, deceased, and Ferdinand Shackleford, administrator of Thomas B. Shackleford, deceased, judgment creditors of John M. Brockenbrough, to set aside as fraudulent three deeds of trust made by the said John M. Brockenbrough. The creditors secured, as well as John M. Brockenbrough, answered denying the fraud.
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This was a suit in equity in the circuit court of Biehmond county, brought in March, 1874, by Lucy C. Brockenbrough, executrix of Littleton Brockenbrough, deceased, and Ferdinand Shackleford, administrator of Thomas B. Shackleford, deceased, judgment creditors of John M. Brockenbrough, to set aside as fraudulent three deeds of trust made by the said John M. Brockenbrough. The creditors secured, as well as John M. Brockenbrough, answered denying the fraud. The first of these deeds bears date the 26th of October, 1870, and by it John M. Brockenbrough and Austina, his wife, for the purpose of…
1Opinion of the CourtBurks, J.
Of the various questions to be determined in this case, the one deemed of most importance is, whether the deed of trust to Thomas Croxton, trustee, was made with intent to hinder, delay and defraud the appel*589lants and other creditors of the grantor, John M. Broekenbrough.
The deed bears date the 26th day of October, 1870, and after reciting that the grantor is indebted to I. M. Parr, of Baltimore, Maryland, by four promissory notes, all of the same date with the deed, for the following sums, and payable as follows, to-wit: one note for $3,200, due November the 1st, 1871; another for $2,960, due…
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