Legal Opinion

Fox v. Cottage Building Fund Ass'n

Supreme Court of Virginia

Decided December 17, 1885PublishedCited by 6 opinions

Appeal from decree of corporation court of Danville, rendered July 11th, 1883, in the chancery cause therein pending, wherein-Henry S. Fox, an infant, by his next friend, was complainant, and P. L. Rendleman, the Cottage Building Fund Association, John T. Watson, F. F. Bowen, George W. Morgan and L. C. Berkeley, junior, trustees of said association, and Maurice J. Fox, trustee and guardian of said Henry S. Fox, were defendants.

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Appeal from decree of corporation court of Danville, rendered July 11th, 1883, in the chancery cause therein pending, wherein-Henry S. Fox, an infant, by his next friend, was complainant, and P. L. Rendleman, the Cottage Building Fund Association, John T. Watson, F. F. Bowen, George W. Morgan and L. C. Berkeley, junior, trustees of said association, and Maurice J. Fox, trustee and guardian of said Henry S. Fox, were defendants. The decree of the court below was favorable to the defendants, and the complainant obtained an appeal to this court.

1Opinion of the CourtRichardson, J.

This is an appeal from a decree of the corporation court of Danville, rendered on the 11th of July, 1883, in the chancery suit wherein Henry S. Fox, an infant, by his next friend, J. Kaufman, was complainant, and the Cottage Building Fund Association, John T. Watson, and others, trustees, and P. L. Rendleman and Maurice J. Fox, trustee and guardian of the infant complainant, were defendants.

Maurice J. Fox, as guardian for his ward, Henry S. Fox, held for the benefit of the latter the sum of $450, and invested it in a tract of land in Henry county, which was conveyed to the said Maurice J.…

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