Hull v. Hull's Heirs
West Virginia Supreme Court
Gbeen, Judge, famishes the following statement of the case: In 1868 Elizabeth M. Hull, widow of Eelix II. Hull, and Hugh "W. Slieffey, administrator of Eelix II. Hull, filed their hill in the circuit court of Pocahontas county, West Virginia, setting out that Eelix H. Hull died intestate in Highland county, Virginia, in the fall of 1861, leaving as surviving heirs a widow Elizabeth M. Hull and three infant children Edgor P, Hull, Eelix Ii. Hull and Lillie Hull.
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Gbeen, Judge, famishes the following statement of the case: In 1868 Elizabeth M. Hull, widow of Eelix II. Hull, and Hugh "W. Slieffey, administrator of Eelix II. Hull, filed their hill in the circuit court of Pocahontas county, West Virginia, setting out that Eelix H. Hull died intestate in Highland county, Virginia, in the fall of 1861, leaving as surviving heirs a widow Elizabeth M. Hull and three infant children Edgor P, Hull, Eelix Ii. Hull and Lillie Hull. Letters of administration were granted by the county court of Highland county Virginia, to Hugh W. Shefiey. lie proceeded to…
1Opinion of the Court
Green, Judge:
We will first consider what errors, il any, there are in the decree of sale made on September 5,1868, for which it would have been reversed, had it been appealed from and supeseded prior to the sale of the lands, of which Felix H. Hull died seized. In the first place it is obvious, that Hugh W. Shef-fey, the administrator of Felex Ii. Hull in Virginia, could not properly be a plaintiff in this cause, whether we regard it as a suit brought to obtain the dower of the widow of Felix H. Hull or as a suit brought to subject to the payment of the debts of Felix H. Hull the lands, of…
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