Catt v. Wm. Knabe & Co.
Supreme Court of Virginia
Argued at Staunton. Decided at Richmond. Appeal from a decree of the Hustings Court of the city of Staunton, pronounced September 21, 1895, in a suit in chancery wherein the appellee was the complainant, and the appellant and another were the defendants.
1Opinion of the Court
Keith, P.,
delivered the opinion of the court.
Wm. Knabe & Co. Manufacturing Co., which sued on behalf of itself and other creditors of the Wesleyan Female Institute, filed its bill in the Hustings Court for the city of Staunton, alleging that a certain deed of trust made by the trustees of the Institute conveying its property, real and personal, to Reeves Catt, trustee, with authority to the trustee to continue to run the school in such manner as shall seem most conducive to the interest of said Institute from the date of the deed until July, 1896, a period of nearly eighteen months, and…
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