Walke & Wife v. Moore
Supreme Court of Virginia
Appeal from a decree of the Corporation Court of the city of Manchester, pronounced November 2, 1895, in a suit in chancery wherein appellants were the complainants, and the appellees were the defendants.
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Appeal from a decree of the Corporation Court of the city of Manchester, pronounced November 2, 1895, in a suit in chancery wherein appellants were the complainants, and the appellees were the defendants. In 1863 John M. Banghan conveyed an undivided half interest in a lot of seventeen acres of land to Alexander Alvis (who owned the other half) in trust for the benefit of the wife and children of said Baughan, with power and direction to the trustee to sell and reinvest on the written request of the wife, and reserving to the wife “the right to dispose of all of the said property, both real…
1Opinion of the CourtRiely, J.
delivered the opinion of the court..John M. Baughan, who owned jointly and equally with Alexander Alvis, the land in controversy, conveyed by deed his moiety thereof, together with certain slaves and other personal property, to the said Alvis upon trust “to hold all of the said property, real and personal * * * * for the sole and ex-*733elusive use and benefit of Virginia Baughan (the wife of the-grantor) and her children, with power to the said Alvis at any time when he shall be so requested by the said Virginia in writing, deeming it for the benefit of the said Virginia and her children, to…
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