Brown v. Lambert's Adm'r
Supreme Court of Virginia
This was a creditor’s bill in the circuit court of Lunenburg county brought by J. W. Ellis, sheriff of said county and as such administrator with the will annexed of Constance Lambert, deceased, against the administrator of Upton Edmondson, deceased, and the three grandchildren of said Upton Edmondson as his distributees and heirs, to subject the estate real and personal to the payment of a debt of $3,000 due from said Edmondson to the plaintiff’s testatrix.
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This was a creditor’s bill in the circuit court of Lunenburg county brought by J. W. Ellis, sheriff of said county and as such administrator with the will annexed of Constance Lambert, deceased, against the administrator of Upton Edmondson, deceased, and the three grandchildren of said Upton Edmondson as his distributees and heirs, to subject the estate real and personal to the payment of a debt of $3,000 due from said Edmondson to the plaintiff’s testatrix. These grandchildren were Upton Brown, Carrie, who had married E. N. Gills, and Fanny the wife of W. W. Phillips. These parties answered,…
1Opinion of the CourtBurks, J.
Upton Edmondson, by deed of date January 15, 3828, and recorded the same day, in consideration, as therein expressed, of the love and affection which he entertained for his wife and child and in order to secure a support for them, conveyed all of his property, real and personal, among the latter a number of slaves, to William Bagley, in trust as follows: “The said William Bagley and his heirs shall permit the profits of all the property hereby conveyed to go to the support and maintenance of the said-Upton Edmondson and Frances his wife and his child now living and the children which the said…
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