Piercy's Heirs v. Piercy
West Virginia Supreme Court
Suit in equity brought in the circuit court of Greenbrier county, bill filed August rules, 1868. George Piercy, executor of John Piercy, Sr., plaintiff. The bill alleges that one James M. Beckett, in 1856, was indebted to the testator in the sum of two thousand seven hundred and twenty-seven dollars and eight cents, to secure-which be executed a trust deed, in which the orator was trustee, on one-half of certain property known as “Piercy mills and factory.”
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Suit in equity brought in the circuit court of Greenbrier county, bill filed August rules, 1868. George Piercy, executor of John Piercy, Sr., plaintiff. The bill alleges that one James M. Beckett, in 1856, was indebted to the testator in the sum of two thousand seven hundred and twenty-seven dollars and eight cents, to secure-which be executed a trust deed, in which the orator was trustee, on one-half of certain property known as “Piercy mills and factory.” The trust extended for five years. That this debt was never paid to testator in his life-time, nor to-orator since his death. That one…
1Opinion of the CourtMoore, J.
The plaintiff alleges in his bill, that “At the time the deed of trust was executed, the mill property aforesaid was jointly owned hy said Beckett, and John Piercy, Jr., the said Beckett having purchased the interest of Andrew J. Piercy in the same, and the said Andrew J. and John Piercy, Jr., having obtained a deed therefor from the said John Piercy, Sr. Some time after the deed of trust was executed, the said Beckett sold his interest in said property to said John Piercy, Jr., and he, the latter, became paymaster to the said John Piercy, Sr., of the debt aforesaid; at least he promised said…
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