Staples' Ex'ors v. Staples
Supreme Court of Virginia
Appeal from decree of circuit court of Patrick county, rendered at its June term, 1886, in the chancery suit therein pending, wherein Isaac Martin, for, &c., was complainant, and Abram Staples’ executors were defendants, in which John Staples was a petitioner seeking to enforce an alleged judgment against said executors. Decree being adverse to the executors, they appealed. Opinion states the case.
1Opinion of the Court
Lewis, P.,
delivered the opinion of the court.
This was a creditors’ suit, in the circuit court of Patrick county, to settle the estate of Abram Staples, deceased, brought in 1870. The decedent died in 1856, leaving a will whereby he appointed Samuel Gr. Staples and Waller R. Staples his executors. Samuel Gr. was the acting executor. In the progress of the cause, to-wit: on the first day of November, 1878, John Staples filed a petition asserting a claim against the estate, which consisted of a judgment rendered by confession in the county court of Patrick county against Samuel Gr. Staples, as…
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