Bond v. Godsey
Supreme Court of Virginia
Appeal from a decree of the Circuit Court, of Wise county, pronounced September 7, 1900, in a suit in chancery, wherein the appellant was the complainant, and the appellee and -others were the defendants. This was a suit brought under the statute for sale of infants’ lands, and was duly proceeded in as such. The facts sufficiently appear in the opinion of the court.
1Opinion of the Court
Keith, P.,
delivered the opinion of the court.
Julia A. Mann died seized of a certain parcel of land in Wise county, only a small part of which was arable, and the chief value *565of which consisted in the forests which covered the greater part of it, and the coal beneath its surface, in which no mine had been opened. She left four children, one of whom, after the death of her mother, married J. L. Godsey, and had issue born alive, and then both the mother and infant died. The other three children of Julia A. Mann are infants under the age of twenty-one years, and this suit was brought by their…
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