Battaile v. Maryland Hospital for the Insane
Supreme Court of Virginia
Appeal from decree of circuit court of Caroline county in suit of H. T. Battaile, plaintiff, against Laura Battaile, Virginia C. Battaile, and J. N. Battaile individually and as administrator of Lawrence Battaile, deceased, and as committee of said Virginia C. Battaile, lunatic, defendants.
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Appeal from decree of circuit court of Caroline county in suit of H. T. Battaile, plaintiff, against Laura Battaile, Virginia C. Battaile, and J. N. Battaile individually and as administrator of Lawrence Battaile, deceased, and as committee of said Virginia C. Battaile, lunatic, defendants. The suit was instituted in 1866, to sell and divide the proceeds of a tract of land containing 512 acres, known as “Oak Hill,” and situated in Caroline county, which had descended from said Lawrence Battaile, who died in 1862,. intestate, on his four children, the parties above named. In May, 1866, a…
1Opinion of the CourtBurks, J.
Many questions supposed by the counsel on the one side or the other to arise in this case have been debated at the bar. Among these are, whether the claim of the Maryland Hospital for the Insane, if established, is chargeable on the estate of Lawrence Battaile, or of his daughter Virginia C. (the lunatic), or should be apportioned between the two (Stinson v. Prescott, 15 Gray, 335), or whether the latter is primarily bound and the former only secondarily, and, in any event, whether the claimant had the right to intervene in the partition suit in the mode pursued; and on both sides many…
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