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[[File:MunfordsReports1814V2CouttsvGreenhow.jpg|link=Media:MunfordsReports1814V2CouttsvGreenhow.pdf|thumb|right|300px|First page of the opinion [[Media:MunfordsReports1814V2CouttsvGreenhow.pdf|''Coutts v. Greenhow'']], in [http://wm-primo.hosted.exlibrisgroup.com/01COWM_WM:EVERYTHING:01COWM_WM_ALMA21560678820003196 ''Reports of Cases Argued and Determined in the Supreme Court of Appeals of Virginia''], by William Munford. New York: I. Riley, 1814.]]
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[[Media:MunfordsReports1814V2CouttsvGreenhow.pdf|''Coutts v. Greenhow'']], Munford Vol. II 363 (1811), <ref>William Munford, ''Reports of Cases Argued and Determined in the Supreme Court of Appeals of Virginia'' (New York: I. Riley, 1814), 2:363.</ref> was a property dispute regarding whether the property should go to children born to the parties before the marriage (illegitimate children) per a marriage settlement or to a creditor to disburse debts. 

==Background==
Coutts owed a debt to Greenhow. To recover that debt, Greenhow attempt to foreclose property that was devised to Coutts children, who were born out of wedlock. 

===The Court's Decision===
Chancellor Wythe decreed that the creditor should be able to foreclose the property. The Court of Appeals reversed.

==See also==
*[[Wythe's Judicial Career]]

==References==
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