Rowe v. Bentley
Supreme Court of Virginia
This was a suit in equity in the circuit court of Gloucester county, brought in 1871 '.by Mary E. Bentley, a married woman, by her next friend and her children, against ■ Thomas B. Rowe, Thomas S- Taliaferro and another, for a settlement of the accounts of said Rowe and Taliaferro *as trustees of the plaintiffs, and for general •relief.
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This was a suit in equity in the circuit court of Gloucester county, brought in 1871 '.by Mary E. Bentley, a married woman, by her next friend and her children, against ■ Thomas B. Rowe, Thomas S- Taliaferro and another, for a settlement of the accounts of said Rowe and Taliaferro *as trustees of the plaintiffs, and for general •relief. The only question in the case was whether Rowe, who had been removed as 1 trustee in. 1855, when Taliaferro was substi- • tuted in his place, had paid over to Taliaferro the sum of $400, which was in his hands as trustee. Rowe showed a receipt of…
1Opinion of the Court
*Burks, J.,
delivered the opinion of the court.
Many years ago James H. Bently, by deed, settled certain property to the separate use of his wife, Mary E., for her life, with remainder to her children, and in the year 1851 the appellant, Thomas B. Rowe, was appointed by the circuit court of Gloucester county trustee under the deed, and amongst the trust property came to his hands were four hundred dollars in money. He acted as trustee until some time in the month of Eebruary, 1855, when he was displaced by order of court, and the appellee, Thomas S. Taliaferro, substituted as trustee. No…
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