Williamson's ex'or v. Goodwyn
Supreme Court of Virginia
This was a suit in equity in the Circuit court of the town of Petersburg, by William H. Goodwyn and others, creditors of John Hardaway deceased, against the executor of Holley T. Williamson deceased, and a former administratrix and present administrator de bonis non of Hardaway.
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This was a suit in equity in the Circuit court of the town of Petersburg, by William H. Goodwyn and others, creditors of John Hardaway deceased, against the executor of Holley T. Williamson deceased, and a former administratrix and present administrator de bonis non of Hardaway. The object of the bill was to set aside two deeds, one of them bearing date the 29th of March .1843, whereby John Hardaway in his lifetime conveyed to his mother, Mrs. Williamson, all his personal property, including his slaves, in consideration of the sum of 3926 dollars. For this sum Mrs. Williamson executed several…
1Opinion of the CourtSamuels, J.
The contract of March 29, 1843, as between John Hardaway and Holly T. Williamson, must be regarded a sale by Hardaway to Williamson, and as passing his title to the property embraced in that transaction; for the price bonds were given in various amounts by the buyer to the seller, which bonds were assigned by the seller to some of his creditors in satisfaction of their debts; the bonds having been drawn for amounts corresponding with the amounts of Hardaway’s debts to the creditors, to whom they were respectively assigned. These bonds were the evidence of the debt due from Williamson to…
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