Ferguson & Fries v. Gooch
Supreme Court of Virginia
Appeal from a decree of the Hustings Court of the city of Roanoke pronounced December 15, 1894, in a suit in chancery wherein W. S. Gooch, trustee, was the complainant, and L. L. Powell, trustee and others were the defendants, in which appellants filed their petition.
1Opinion of the CourtBuchanan, J.
In the year 1890, .Me. C. Willis, who was the owner of certain lots in the city of Roanoke, on which there were two deeds of trust, one to secure to G. A. Camp the payment of two notes for §2,000 each, and the other to secure the payment of two notes of $1,333.33 each, payable to J. J. Roberts, conveyed the lots to the Old Dominion Investment Co. in consideration of the sum of $12,000. Of this sum it was to pay a portion in cash, assume the payment of the debts due Camp and Roberts, and execute a note for $2,000, the residue of the purchase money, and secure it by a deed of trust upon the…
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