Christian v. Ellis
Supreme Court of Virginia
John H. Christian and Ebenezer P. Stratton were merchants and partners doing business in the county of Nelson under the name and style of Christian Stratton.
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John H. Christian and Ebenezer P. Stratton were merchants and partners doing business in the county of Nelson under the name and style of Christian Stratton. As partners they became indebted to Lewis Webb Sf Co. in the sum of 670 dollars 33 cents, for which Webb Sf Co. recovered a judgment against them, at the August term of the county court of Nelson for the year 1835, and issued thereon a ca. sa., on which they were taken and committed to jail on the 27th of October 1835. These partners were also indebted to Charles Ellis in the sum of 1203 dollars 5 cents, for which he recovered a judgment…
1Opinion of the CourtStanard, J.
The court is of opinion that the circuit court properly adjudged the deed of the 17th of August 1835, to be void as to the judgment creditors of Christian Sf Stratton, so that the effects of Christian Sf Stratton, embraced by that deed, remained chargeable by such judgment creditors in like manner as they would have been had the said deed not been made; and that the said court properly adjudged, between the judgment creditors, priority to Lewis Webb Sf Co., and decreed to them in part of their judgment, the proceeds of the goods of Christian Sf Stratton. The court is further of opinion that…
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