Coleman v. Cocke
Supreme Court of Virginia
This was an appeal taken by Henry E. Coleman and William A. Bentley, from a Decree rendered against them and others, by the Superior Court of for the Richmond District.
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This was an appeal taken by Henry E. Coleman and William A. Bentley, from a Decree rendered against them and others, by the Superior Court of for the Richmond District. The Bill was exhibited in February, 1820, by John F. Coche, and Anne, his wife, who was Anne Ronald, and Elizabeth Ronald; and sets forth, that William Bentley, in the year 1793, together with Samuel Pleasants and John Swann, qualified as Guardians of the female Plaintiffs, and of their sister, Jane Ronald, and executed a Guardian’s Bond, with four sureties, (naming them;) that the sister, Jane, died some time afterwards,…
1Opinion of the Court
Judge Green
delivered his opinion.
The Appellees having obtained Decrees against William Bentley, filed their Bill against him, and many persons holding personal, and others holding real property, some of them direetty, and others indirectly, under him, the object of which was to set aside the conveyances as being fraudulent as to them, and to subject the property, thereby conveyed, to the satisfaction of their claims..The Counsel for Colenian, who holds a part of the land in question, urged as an objection to the jurisdiction of the Court, that at the time when the Bill was filed, the…
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