CRESTAR BANK v. WILLIAMS

Record Nos. 941300, 941563 and 941574.

462 S.E.2d 333 (1995)

CRESTAR BANK v. Geoffrey T. WILLIAMS, et al. Virginia S. SMITH v. Geoffrey T. WILLIAMS, et al. The RELIANT GROUP, L.P., etc. v. Joseph P. BRACCO, et al.

Supreme Court of Virginia.

September 15, 1995.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

James R. Hart, Fairfax, (Dixon, Smith & Stahl, on brief), for appellant in No. 941300.

No brief or argument for appellees in No. 941300.

Carla F. Ward-Ahmad, Washington, DC (Earl E. Shaffer, Arlington, on brief), for appellant in No. 941563.

No brief or argument for appellees in No. 941563.

G. David Fensterheim, Washington, DC (William Trencher; Fensterheim & Bean; Bayh, Connaughton & Malone, on brief), for appellant in No. 941574.

No brief or argument for appellees in No. 941574.

Present: CARRICO, C.J., and COMPTON, STEPHENSON, WHITING, HASSELL and KEENAN, JJ., and COCHRAN, Retired Justice.


COMPTON, Justice.

These appeals stem from a trial court's decree in two consolidated chancery suits that, inter alia, granted a constructive trust in favor of 17 "investors" with reference to seven assets of a defaulting debtor. The constructive trust established priority of the investors' claims over those of certain of the debtor's judgment creditors.

The dispositive question on appeal is whether the court below erroneously declared a blanket constructive...

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