Supreme Court of Virginia December 19, 1876 (Spilman v. Johnson)

Staples, J.

It is claimed by the appellant that the property known as the “ Granite Quarry,” in the possession of the appellee, Johnson, was sold under a decree of the circuit court of the United States; that the suit in which that decree was rendered, was brought not for the purpose of procuring a sale, but merely to vacate as fraudulent the lease made to Turner Exall; that he, the appellant,