Wright v. Strother
Supreme Court of Virginia
^ Appeals from decrees of circuit court of Frederick county in a certain cause therein pending under the style of Mitchell v. Wright et als. Its object was to make partition of certain lands among the cotenants thereof, some of whom were purchasers of undivided shares, thereof from certain of the original coparceners who had reserved liens for the unpaid purchase money.
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^ Appeals from decrees of circuit court of Frederick county in a certain cause therein pending under the style of Mitchell v. Wright et als. Its object was to make partition of certain lands among the cotenants thereof, some of whom were purchasers of undivided shares, thereof from certain of the original coparceners who had reserved liens for the unpaid purchase money. Partition was made and confirmed by a decree entered 13th June, 18.73, which decree, however, contemplated and provided for a further decree to give complete relief. Afterwards J. T. Strother and other creditors having liens…
1Opinion of the CourtBurks, J.
These two causes are so connected that they must of ■■necessity be considered together. Mrs. Boyce having ■dismissed her appeal in each of the causes, Joseph T. Wright is now the only appellant. His complaint is of the partition confirmed by the decree rendered June 20, 1879, in the cause first above named, and the ground of complaint is not that the land set apart to him is not the full and fail-measure of his original interest, as one of the heirs of Joseph Tuley in the “Lucky Hit” and “Tuleyries” farms, but that he is not permitted to retain the land assigned to him by a previous decree,…
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