Dobyns' Adm'x v. Waring
Supreme Court of Virginia
Appeal from decree of circuit court of Essex county, rendered January 19, 1882, in a suit in chancery therein under the style of Dobyns v. Waring, wherein the bill was dismissed at plaintiff’s costs, and on her petition an appeal was awarded.
1Opinion of the CourtRichardson, J.
This is a controversy as to priority of right between a judgment creditor, asserting the lien of a judgment on a certain *160real estate on the one hand, and subsequent purchasers of said real estate on the other hand, who claim by deed under one who took the same as purchaser from one of the judgment debtors,'who conveyed by deed made and recorded subsequent to the rendition and docketing of the judgment, there being of record no prior executory contract.
Omitting many things that occurred in the progress of the cause, which are not material to the question to be decided by this court, the case,…
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