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Young v. Willis

Supreme Court of Virginia

Decided July 15, 1886PublishedCited by 14 opinions

Appeal from decrees of circuit court of Franklin county, rendered respectively on 30th April and 11th June, 1885, in the chancery cause of Steven B. Willis and Henry C. Lester, against Jackson Young, J. W. Hartwell, trustee, and others.

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Appeal from decrees of circuit court of Franklin county, rendered respectively on 30th April and 11th June, 1885, in the chancery cause of Steven B. Willis and Henry C. Lester, against Jackson Young, J. W. Hartwell, trustee, and others. The object of the suit was to impeach as fraudulent a trust deed executed by Young to Hartwell to secure certain creditors, preferring some, and conveying a tract of land and six horses and utensils then on the land, and reserving to Young the use and profits thereof for the period of three years, by his paying the interest annually on certain of the debts, at…

1Opinion of the CourtLacy, J.

The case is as follows: On the 13th day of February, 1885, the appellant, Jackson L. Young, executed a deed conveying to the appellant, J. W. Hartwell, a tract of land situated in Franklin county, and certain personal property thereon, in trust, to secure the payment of his debts, preferring some of his creditors, and postponing others, the appellees being the last, along with the Henry County Bank.

Upon the bill of the appellees, attacking the said trust deed as fraudulent, an injunction was awarded injoining the grantor and trustee from interfering with the property conveyed in the said…

2Cases cited5 opinions

  1. Dance v. SeamanSupreme Court of Virginia · 1854
  2. Wray v. DavenportSupreme Court of Virginia · 1884
  3. Addington v. EtheridgeSupreme Court of Virginia · 1855
  4. Sipe v. EarmanSupreme Court of Virginia · 1875
  5. McCormick v. AtkinsonSupreme Court of Virginia · 1883

3Cited by14 opinions

  1. Keagy v. TroutSupreme Court of Virginia · 1888
  2. Cochran v. ParisSupreme Court of Virginia · 1854
  3. Gold v. Laines (In Re Laines)United States Bankruptcy Court, E.D. Virginia · 2005
  4. Norris v. LakeSupreme Court of Virginia · 1893
  5. Kemp v. National Bank of the Republic of New YorkCourt of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit · 1901

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