Downey v. Strouse & Co.
Supreme Court of Virginia
Appeal from a decree of the Corporation Court of the city of Alexandria, pronounced June 15, 1901, in a suit in chancery, wherein the appellees, L. Strouse & Co., were the complainants, and the appellant and others were the defendants.
1Opinion of the CourtHarrison, J.
It appears from the record that Thomas Downey died in January, 1887, seised of certain real estate in the city of Alexan*227dría, which by his last will and testament he devised to his wife, Mary Downey, for life or widowhood, with remainder over to nine of his children. The widow, the life tenant, died in December, 1889, and soon thereafter this suit was brought by a creditor of Thomas D. Downey, one of the nine remaindermen, to subject his interest in the real estate left by the ancestor to the satisfaction of a judgment lien. The remaindermen filed answers uniting’ in the prayer of the bill…
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