Swetnam v. Antonsanti

This is the third time the Supreme Court of Appeals has had occasion to review this cause. The former decisions are reported in 123 Va. 147, 96 S. E. 197, and 142 Va. 218, 128 S. E. 510, wherein the facts are fully set forth.

A brief history of this litigation is as follows:

Eustace Jeffries, the owner of a large estate in Fauquier county, Virginia, in 1907 filed a bill in chancery against his nephew, James P. Jeffries and his wife, *537Mary H. Jeffries. In the bill it is set forth that the complainant, being aged and feeble, placed his large estate in the hands of James P. Jeffries as his agent,…