Clark v. Oliver
Supreme Court of Virginia
Appeal from a decree of the Circuit Court of Henrico county, pronounced July 30, 1891, in a suit in chancery wherein the appellants were the complainants, and the appellees were the defendants.
1Opinion of the Court
Keith, P.,
delivered the opinion of the court.
In the spring of 1875, certain colored people purchased of Charles T. Davis a lot of ground in the city of Richmond, on the north line of Moore street, with brick buildings thereon, and on the 22d of August, 1876, this property was conveyed to John Oliver, Coleman C. Smith and others, who had been in the meantime appointed trustees of the Moore Street Missionary Baptist Church, by an order of the Circuit Court of Richmond city, entered on the 24th of November, 1875, to hold the property, subject to the payment of the unpaid purchase money, for the…
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