MR. CHIEF JUSTICE FULLER delivered the opinion of the court.
In 1870 certain suits were pending in the Circuit Court of the county of Elizabeth City, Virginia, brought by judgment creditors of one Parker West to subject his lands to the satisfaction of their judgments, under the provisions of c. 182 of the code of 1873, authorizing a sale of the judgment debtor's lands when it appeared that the rents and profits for five years would be insufficient to discharge the...
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