Davis v. Beazley
Supreme Court of Virginia
This was a suit iu equity in the circuit court of Greene county, brought by J. G. E. Davis and others, trustees of the Greene Humane Society, to enforce a deed of trust made by Bobert Pritchett, dated the 17th of January, 1859, by which he conveyed to John Graves his intest in the La Fayette hotel property, in the town of Stanardsville, to secure a debt of $678.37, which said Pritchett had borrowed from the Greene Humane Society.
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This was a suit iu equity in the circuit court of Greene county, brought by J. G. E. Davis and others, trustees of the Greene Humane Society, to enforce a deed of trust made by Bobert Pritchett, dated the 17th of January, 1859, by which he conveyed to John Graves his intest in the La Fayette hotel property, in the town of Stanardsville, to secure a debt of $678.37, which said Pritchett had borrowed from the Greene Humane Society. The defendants were Wyatt S. Beazley, in his own right and as administrator of Bobert L. Pritchett and Elizabeth his wife, who had been the wife of Bobert L.…
1Opinion of the CourtBurks, J.
The controversy in this case is between adverse claimants, under two several deeds of the same grantor conveying the same property—the one a deed of bargain and sale dated September 13,1855, and the other a deed of trust bearing date-January 17, 1859, given to secure a debt of the grantor, with power to the trustee to sell the property in default of payment of the debt. It is admitted that the debt is just and has never been paid. According to repeated decisions of this court (see Williams and others v. Lord & Robinson and others, decided during the present term, and cases there cited) the…
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