Alvis v. Saunders

The facts essential to a clear understanding of this appeal, which involves the propriety of the action of the Chancery Court of the city of Richmond in sustaining a demurrer to the plaintiffs’ bill, are shown by the record .to be that Robert Alvis became, in April, 1877, the owner of a valuable estate in Charles City county known as Weyanolce; that he paid part of the purchase money and secured $20,000, the residue thereof, by a deed of trust on the property, bearing even date with the deed conveying the same to him; that in 1885, Alvis being heavily in debt, with numerous judgments against…