Crenshaw v. Seigfried
Supreme Court of Virginia
By bond bearing date the 26th of March 1852, Anna Seigfried promised to pay to Anne C. Morris, guardian of James M. Morris, two thousand dollars, months after the date thereof, with interest from the date. And by a- deed dated on the next day, she conveyed to Wm. F. Gordon and Wm. J. Robinson, a tract oí land containing seven hundred and five acres, upon trust to secure the payment of said debt.
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By bond bearing date the 26th of March 1852, Anna Seigfried promised to pay to Anne C. Morris, guardian of James M. Morris, two thousand dollars, months after the date thereof, with interest from the date. And by a- deed dated on the next day, she conveyed to Wm. F. Gordon and Wm. J. Robinson, a tract oí land containing seven hundred and five acres, upon trust to secure the payment of said debt. The deed provided that upon the failure to pay, on the request of Anne C. Morris or her representative, the said trustee, or either of them, should proceed to sell at public auction for ready money,…
1Opinion of the Court
Moncure, P.,
delivered the opinion of the court.
The first error assigned by the appellant, in the decree appealed from, is, that it sustains the plaintiff’s exception to commissioner White’s report: the said exception being, “because the commissioner allows defendant war interest; and, whilst not allowing war interest to be charged on the bond in the proceedings mentioned for the period of the late war, deducts from the principal the scaled value of the Confederate money, which was paid on account of interest during that time.
The said decree appealed from was pronounced on the 23d day of May…
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