Green v. Claiborne

Citations

• 83 Va. 386
• 5 S.E. 376
• 1887 Va. LEXIS 85

Syllabus

<p>Married Women—Trustees—Powers—To sell—To mortgage.-—Where deed of settlement empowers married woman to change investment, and the trustees, upon her written request, to sell trust property and ■invest proceeds in other property upon same trusts, this does not authorize those trustees to mortgage the trust property for payment of bonds given for other property bought by those trustees as such, nor is she empowered to authorize them so to do ; and a mortgage executed by them under such circumstances is ultra vires and void.</p>