Booth v. McJilton
Supreme Court of Virginia
Appeal from two decrees of circuit court of Northampton county, rendered March 8, 1884, and September 4, 1884, respectively, in a cause wherein E. G. Booth was plaintiff, and Lewis H. McJilton was defendant. The decree was adverse to Booth, and he obtained an appeal to this court.
1Opinion of the CourtLacy, J.
The bill was filed on the sixth day of February, 1882, by the appellant, to set aside as fraudulent a deed executed on the *828second day of May, 1877, acknowledged before a, commissioner of deeds for New Jersey on the 14th of the said month, and reacknowledged before a commissioner of the State of Virginia on the 11th day of March, 1881, to certain lands situated in Northampton county, Virginia. The charge is that the deed was made in May, 1877, to John W. Miller, in exchange for real estate in St. Louis, Missouri; that shortly thereafter it was discovered that the grantee, Miller, had no such…
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