Cady v. Straus
Supreme Court of Virginia
Error to a judgment of the Law and Equity Court of the city of Richmond, rendered June 7, 1898, in a proceeding by motion for a judgment, wherein the plaintiff in error was the plaintiff, and the defendant in error was the defendant.
Read the full summary
Error to a judgment of the Law and Equity Court of the city of Richmond, rendered June 7, 1898, in a proceeding by motion for a judgment, wherein the plaintiff in error was the plaintiff, and the defendant in error was the defendant. The object of the motion was to recover the difference between sixty per cent, of a debt which it is alleged the defendant in error agreed to pay, and the amount of a dividend of forty per cent, on said debt, paid in the chancery suit mentioned in the opinion of the court.
1Opinion of the Court
Keith, P.,
delivered the opinion of the court.
Lee Straus, a wholesale shoe dealer in the city of Richmond, made an assignment for the benefit of his creditors, in which he ■established certain preferences in favor of individuals named, and his general merchandise creditors, amounting in the aggregate to about $33,000, instituted a suit to have the deed declared fraudulent and void, as to them, in the Chancery Court of the .city of Richmond. On Pebruary 23, 1897, the judge of the Chancery Court notified counsel that, in his opinion, plaintiff had failed to establish the charge of fraud, and the…
2Cited by2 opinions
- Cummins v. BeaversSupreme Court of Virginia · 1904
- Dawson v. HotchkissSupreme Court of Virginia · 1933