Lawson v. Moorman
Supreme Court of Virginia
Appeal from decree of corporation court of Danville, rendered January 14, 1888, in a suit wherein William J. Moorman and others, heirs-at law of J. G. Moorman, deceased, were complainants, and W. IST. Shelton, administrator of E. W. Lawson, deceased, and said Lawson’s heirs and others, were defendants.
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Appeal from decree of corporation court of Danville, rendered January 14, 1888, in a suit wherein William J. Moorman and others, heirs-at law of J. G. Moorman, deceased, were complainants, and W. IST. Shelton, administrator of E. W. Lawson, deceased, and said Lawson’s heirs and others, were defendants. Its obj’ect was to set aside a sale made to said Lawson of complainant’s ancestors’ land, under a decree of the circuit court of Pittsylvania county in a creditors’ suit instituted by Thomas O. Soyars to sell the real estate of said J. O. Moorman, deceased, to pay judgment liens. To the last…
1Opinion of the CourtLacy, J.
The suit was instituted on the 20th day of March, 1884, by the appellees, as the heirs-at-law of ODe James O. Moorman, deceased, being at that time aged, respectively, William J. Moorman, twenty-eight years of age; Samuel J. Moorman, twenty-six; and J. C. Moorman, twenty years and ten months— the object of this suit being to set aside a judicial sale of their deceased father’s real estate made by the circuit court of Pittsylvania county to the appellants’ intestate, R. W. Lawson, deceased, who had been substituted as such purchaser in the place of E. B. Keen, the actual purchaser of the land,…
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