Pannill's Adm'r v. Calloway's Committee
Supreme Court of Virginia
Appeal of Peter W. Watkins, administrator of George Pannill, deceased, and others, from decrees of chancery court of Richmond city, rendered 14th June, 1879, and 23d October, 1879, and on 3d February, 1881, respectively, in suit of George Calloway’s committee against Peter W. Watkins, as administrator of George Pannill, deceased (who had in his lifetime been committee of said George Calloway), and his sureties.
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Appeal of Peter W. Watkins, administrator of George Pannill, deceased, and others, from decrees of chancery court of Richmond city, rendered 14th June, 1879, and 23d October, 1879, and on 3d February, 1881, respectively, in suit of George Calloway’s committee against Peter W. Watkins, as administrator of George Pannill, deceased (who had in his lifetime been committee of said George Calloway), and his sureties. The decrees held the estate of said George Pannill, and his sureties, as such committee, liable for large sums received by him as Such committee, and from these decrees the appeal was…
1Opinion of the Court
Lacy, J,
delivered the opinion of the court.
In 1847, upon an inquisition of lunacy, the circuit court of Henry appointed John Calloway a committee for his son, George H. Calloway. Subsequently, in the year 1853, George Pannill, by order of the county court of Henry, was appointed committee for the same lunatic, so far as his interest in the estate of Robert Hairston was concerned, who, together with George Hairston and Peter W. Watkins, as his sureties, entered into and acknowledged a bond in the penalty of $50,000 as such committee.
*389In 1867, suit was instituted in the circuit court of…
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