Saunders v. Pruntey
Supreme Court of Virginia
Appeal from circuit court, Franklin county. Suit by Jesse Pruntey and another, on behalf of themselves and other lien creditors, against C. I. Saunders, to subject land to payment of liens. From a decree overruling exceptions to and confirming a commissioner’s report, and directing a sale of the land to satisfy the liens reported, defendant appeals.
1Opinion of the CourtCardwell, J.
This case is as follows : On the 19th of April, 1871, W. C. Calloway, along with C. I. Saunders (the appellant), J. S. Taylor, and T. S. Saunders, executed to Marshall Hairston a joint bond, for $1,000, with interest from date, and on the same day Calloway executed to C. I. Saunders a deed conveying a tract of land in Franklin county, in trust, to secure the payment of the bond, providing in the deed that, at any time after the succeeding January, the trustee, when required by Hairston, should sell the land for cash, and out of the proceeds pay the debts secured, and the remainder, if any, to…
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- Shipman v. FletcherSupreme Court of Virginia · 1895
- Saunders v. PruntySupreme Court of Virginia · 1893
- Boulware v. Hartsook's Adm'rSupreme Court of Virginia · 1887
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